Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...copy of the Magna Charta, were their chief stops, being formal reasons for their U. S. visit. Artist Frank E. Beresford was on hand with sketch pad to record the event. Columbia University got a crack at them on their way to Hyde Park: Dr. Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous") Butler received them at the foot of the library steps, showed them the King's College charter issued by George II in 1754. Ahead was an 80-mile drive up the Hudson, with no comfort stops...
...well enough to attend) would rank British Ambassador Sir Ronald Lindsay at the President's State dinner, since the King would then represent himself. Mrs. Henrietta Nesbit, the White Housekeeper, noticed that Their Majesties ate a lot of strawberries in Canada, ordered a supply. Fields, the White House butler, decided to use the new F. D. R. china (white Lenox with cobalt & gold bands). He put polishers on the state service whose gold plating was begun under President Harrison, continued under McKinley, finished under Coolidge...
Justice Frankfurter, vastly enjoying his new pontifical position, planned to pause at his home in Cambridge, Mass, before sailing to receive an honorary degree from Oxford University, England. Justice Roberts headed for his Pennsylvania farm; Justice Black for a rented house at Seminary, Va.; Justice Butler for an honorary degree from Boston College, then his farm at Woodbine, Md.; Justice Stone for his 45th class reunion at Amherst, then for Isle au Haut...
...official legal aide and unofficial Pooh-Bah, he not only dispenses legal advice, but sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there is a girl in my office answering letters...
...bench since Chief Justice White's death, clamored for a Catholic. The Eastern hierarchy wanted young Martin Manton of New York. But Taft and old George W. Wickersham plugged for another Catholic (who also was a Democrat, most Catholics being Democrats), one from the Northwest. So, Pierce Butler of Minnesota was appointed instead of Martin Manton, who stayed on the bench of the mighty second Circuit Court of Appeals, became its irascible, domineering senior judge. He never reached the Supreme Court...