Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...union. Because the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing & Allied Workers of America was already in the farm field, S. T. F. U. was required to hook up with that union as a supposedly autonomous division. Last week S. T. F. U.'s Executive Secretary Mitchell and President J. R. Butler, suddenly breaking off the affiliation, made ugly charges...
...Benjamin, Ph.D., director of the College of Education of University of Colorado, onetime cowboy, fisherman, soldier, who can roll two cigarets at once. Dr. Benjamin admitted writing a foreword to the book, of the rest would say only that "It was not written by [Columbia University President] Nicholas Murray Butler...
Confronted with such flagrant red herrings as Sidney Blackmer, Alan Dinehart, Reginald Owen, a skulking butler and two furtive juveniles, the sleuthing couple gaily but improbably sniff out the right scent, get their manuscript...
...methods of getting into those affairs," the noted crasher went on, "I have many. The most embarrassing, of course, is when I have to resort to a butler's uniform and go in through the kitchen...
...tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities from the enemy...