Word: butlered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Philadelphia's Republican Publisher Moses Annenberg for income-tax evasion. He was looking around for other victims in a field rich with game, when Franklin Roosevelt elevated him to the place left vacant by the death of the only Catholic on the Supreme Court, crusty old Pierce Butler...
Celebrating their new status as householders (they just moved into their very own Clarence House), Britain's matronly Princess Elizabeth and her husband the Duke of Edinburgh went to a fancy dress party last week costumed as a butler and chambermaid. Their host, Ambassador Douglas, was rigged out as a farmer. His wife hid her gentle features behind a horse's mask to appear as The Old Grey Mare. Their daughter, honey-haired Sharman, came as A Portrait of a Lady; she carried around a huge picture frame, finally abandoned it in a corner...
...Stakes. In the Betsy Ross Stakes at Boston's Suffolk Downs, Growing Up ($30.20) surprised the connoisseurs. Colonel Mike, winner of the Lamplighter Handicap at Monmouth Park (N.J.), paid $21.60. In New York, there was a slight delay while the judges examined the photograph after the $58,400 Butler Handicap. Then those who had bet on Conniver got in line to collect their...
...Senators were also looking for other doors to lock. With the Army tracking down the shennanigans of "Five-Percenters" (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Nebraska's Senator Hugh Butler thought the Government ought to go after its own ex-officials who practice law before the same agencies they once bossed...
Specifically, Butler mentioned ex-CAB Chairman James Landis, ex-Trustbuster Thurman Arnold, ex-OPA Boss Paul Porter and ex-Under Secretary of the Interior Abe Fortas. He called them "the real influence men ... the professional bleeding hearts of the New Deal who have been converted to the private enterprise system by ... fat legal fees." Butler wanted to outlaw all such representation for at least two years after officials left federal service...