Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...meeting at Bellingham. again outside the doors of a party clam-dinner from the rostrum of which he had been excluded, Rev. Payson Peterson loudly demanded Chairman Emerson's resignation, charged that Emerson was getting not only his funds but his directions from William Curtise Butler...
...William Curtise Butler? Messrs. Peterson and Emerson were fully aware of the significance and stature of this Everett banker who happened to be the brother of the president of Columbia University, but to the State of Washington and the nation at large he was not even a potent name. In fact, Nicholas Murray Butler's brother is as enigmatic a figure as Sherlock Holmes's brother Mycroft...
William Curtise Butler owns a large interest in the First National Bank of Seattle, is president of Everett Trust & Savings Bank and Everett's First National, controls immense timber interests in western Washington. Though his is one of the Northwest's big fortunes, his name appears on no door, window or nameplate, identifies no concern, is not listed in Who's Who or the Everett telephone book. The oldest employe in the First National of Seattle does not know who he is. Yet, through Brother Nicholas, he has selected two of the University of Washington...
Besides eight patronesses there will be twelve ushers from Harvard and Dartmouth each. The Harvard list includes Frederick S. Alien '35, David W. Brown '36, Charles A. Butler '37, Donald S. Carmichael '35, Benjamin S. Foss, Jr. '35, Thomas B. Gannett '35, Merie W. Harat '35, Fisher Howe, 3rd '35, Donald T. V. Huntoon, 2nd '35, Arthur M. Jones, Jr. '35, William Tabler '36, Henry R. Watson '35, and J. Burke Wilkinson...
...Barnard, Dean Virginia Gildersleeve followed up President Nicholas Murray Butler's diatribe on youthful manners (TIME, Oct. 8) with these remarks to freshmen: "Perhaps the manners of girls may be better than boys, from what I've heard said about them. Nevertheless there is room for improvement. Don't grab plates of cake at a tea, as I've seen college girls do. Don't elbow your way into an elevator. It may be exhilaration or mob psychology that makes you behave in such a way, but whatever it is you girls must remember that...