Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...claim processing taxes are illegal, will be argued next week. The other is that of the Hoosac Mills Corp. of New Bedford, Mass, which was argued this week. The receivers of Hoosac Mills, one of whom is the late Calvin Coolidge's great & good friend William Morgan Butler, appealed to a Federal Court to be excused from paying $81,694 of processing and floor taxes on the ground that AAA is unconstitutional. Hoosac Mills lost its plea in the lower court but won in the Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston last July (TIME, July...
...contradictory advice already before them in briefs, the nine Justices this week entered their courtroom to hear what was still to be said. The great columned chamber was jammed with notables. Down in front sat Pennsylvania's George Wharton Pepper, counsel for Hoosac Mills, with his client, Mr. Butler, beside him. Farther back sat Mrs. Pepper with an admiring eye on her frock-coated husband. On hand for the fun was Episcopal Bishop James Edward Freeman. Senator Costigan of Colorado had to stand. Down in front sat Attorney General Cummings and near him Solicitor General Stanley Reed...
...domestic mess (spoiled child, neurotic sister, filching servants, and all) on the side, only to find that she is a wife in name only. Julia's efforts to shake her husband out of his stodgy absorption in business finally succeed in a grand drunk at the expense of the butler's supply of Scotch. If half your pleasure in the late lamented Harvard football season was the drunks in the stands, weep no more, for here is a lovely one. It all ends with a ride, at the conclusion of which everybody gathers around to throw the bricks through...
...matched by the smooth direction, and just the right tempo is maintained throughout. There are several good comedy scenes. The narcotic sister who goes on a hunger strike of some terrific duration--about half an hour. Both parts are excellently written and played, as is that of the butler. Michael Harret sings and acts his part will, but he's just a dummy, tossed in because a third man was needed...
...broad countenance twinkling, Bishop Ryan shook hands with such men as Ambassador Hans Luther of Germany, Assistant Attorney General Joseph Berry Keenan, Bishop James Edward Freeman and Canon Anson Phelps Stokes from the Episcopal Cathedral. President Roosevelt sent a letter which Postmaster General Farley read. Mr. Justice Pierce Butler of the U. S. Supreme Court and Secretary of Agriculture Wallace made speeches...