Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this big man, one of our truly big Americans, is pro-British. Why? All the big Butlers, the poet W. Butler Yeats, General Butler in the World War I, Justice Butler of our Supreme Court, to name a few, were and are Irish...
...Nicholas Murray Butler's maternal grandfather, Rev. Nicholas Murray of Elizabeth, N. J., was a lifetime Presbyterian and onetime Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church. Says his grandson: "So marked was his leadership and so great was his authority that he was often humorously referred to as the Presbyterian Pope...
TIME lives up to its name. It is timely. It knows and prints things that are not found elsewhere. This week [Sept. 25] under the word Prodigy it has a notice of Nicholas Murray ("Miraculous," he deserves it) Butler's autobiography, in which it states that he comes from an ancestry of "preachers, educators...
...Butler's ancestors were predominantly Scottish, miraculously changed their name from Buchanan to Butler when they immigrated...
Columbia University's Nicholas Murray Butler: "[The] world, so far as its professed and constantly extolled ideals are concerned, is in a state of well-nigh total collapse. . . . Modern man has returned ... to the jungle. . . . The great philosophers, men of letters and men of science v.ho dominated the thought ... of the past 200 years are no longer recognized or ever referred to as offering guidance for conduct and for public policy...