Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...National Chairman Paul Butler of Indiana and his California sidekick Paul Ziffren (TIME, Feb. 16) held votes enough to force ratification of Los Angeles by a top-heavy 71-35, after a three-hour debate at the National Committee's session in Washington. The victory was a handsome push for Adlai Stevenson, longtime ally and presidential choice of the liberal Ziffren-Butler team. And this, even more than space, time and smog, was what worried moderate Easterners and conservative Southerners most...
...said Britain's Home Secretary and Lord Privy Seal, "that my destiny lies in the field of social reform-and I am happy in it." To those who know the cool and acid-tongued Richard Austen Butler well, the philosophic tone of the first part of that remark must have seemed odd; Rab Butler has shown not the slightest sign that he has given up hope of one day living at 10 Downing Street. But no one could have taken issue with the straightness of the second part. Probably not since Wilberforce has Britain had a more dedicated reformer...
...coarse coconut fiber; more often than not, their daylight filters in through heavily barred fortress windows eight feet up. Aside from chapel, most prisons have no assembly halls, and today more than 6,000 men sleep three to a room in cells originally intended for solitary confinement. What Rab Butler is after is nothing less than a head-to-toe overhaul of the whole penal system...
...Formidable Quartet. Though he comes from a long line of reformers (his father was a top British civil servant in India), Butler fell in with the family tradition quite unintentionally. His rise to power in the Conservative Party was dogged by the memory of 1939, when, at the age of 36, it was his duty to defend the Munich disaster in the House of Commons (the Foreign Secretary, Halifax, was in the House of Lords). The formidable quartet of Tories who opposed Munich-Churchill, Eden, Macmillan and Lord Salisbury-never really made common cause with him. Prime Minister Churchill tucked...
...support behind social security, gave needed protection to individuals facing tribunals, fought for aliens' right to live permanently in Britain, has been the champion of an up-to-date censorship law. After Suez, when Harold Macmillan was chosen instead of him to succeed Eden at 10 Downing Street, Butler remarked: "Well, it is something to have been almost Prime Minister." In the long run, Rab Butler seems destined to be remembered for a good deal more than that...