Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Court filed in looking cheerful, particularly Chief Justice Hughes, Justices Stone and McReynolds. By turns the Justices began to read decisions. Justice Butler read one of little public interest. Justice Sutherland read one making news, in which it was held that President Roosevelt had no right to oust a Federal Trade Commissioner without specific cause (see p. 11). Next, more news: Mr. Justice Brandeis declared the Frazier-Lemke Farm Mortgage Bill unconstitutional (see p. 15). Then all that news of a newsworthy Court session grew inconspicuous. The Chief Justice announced that he would read the Court's decision concerning...
...KING OF THE GREAT CLOCK TOWER, COMMENTARIES AND POEMS- William Butler Yeats-Macmillan...
...William Butler Yeats has never been crowned Laureate of Ireland, but he is more truly Ireland's Bard than Masefield is England's. When a Dubliner stops his chatter and raises his right hand as if to take an oath, his companions know that he is about to quote the words of William Butler Yeats. Nearing three score and ten (he will be 70 on June 13), Poet Yeats has written enough and well enough in his long life to satisfy most men. But few poets are willing to die before their time; though his Muse...
Such a congregation as heard "The Son of God Goes Forth to War" resound from the roof above Bronson Cutting's copper coffin has seldom sat in one church. There were J. P. Morgan* and A. F. of L.'s William Collins, Walter Lippmann and Nicholas Murray Butler, Colonel House and Hiram Johnson, Sir Ronald Lindsay and Norman Thomas, Alice Longworth and Mrs. August Belmont, Joseph H. Choate Jr. and Senator La Follette, the President's mother and Mrs. Eugene Meyer, Senator Vandenberg and Isabella Greenway, soft-spoken Spanish Americans and nasal-twanged Yankees, stockbrokers who dwell...
...mind as the nursery's headquarters. Then & there Mrs. Walrath's listeners-U. S. Gypsum's Sewell Lee Avery, Pure Oil's Henry Dawes (brother), Franklin MacVeagh's Rollin H. Keyes (since deceased), Carson Pirie Scott's Frederick Hossack Scott, Butler Bros.' Frank H. Cunningham-gave the necessary $1,000 each...