Word: butlers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well bridged this session), but a growing, widening fault line between the Johnson-Rayburn moderates and the liberals, who read last November's 283-153 House victory and 64-34 Senate victory as a mandate for massive federal spending programs. The Democratic National Committee, chaired by fiery Paul Butler, has all but broken off relations with congressional leaders. Last week the dolittle, talk-much Democratic Advisory Council (among the members: Adlai Stevenson, Harry Truman. Soapy Williams) fired another salvo at Johnson & Co.: "[The voters] expect and are entitled to have in this Congress more tangible results of the mandate...
...command its great new boat, the Navy has picked one of its best: Commander James Butler Osborn, 41, a Missouri-born, Annapolis-trained ('41) package of controlled power, who has been on hand 18 hours a day since March rushing work on George Washington. A World War II submariner (six combat patrols), Osborn spent his postwar years earning a master's degree in mechanical engineering in three years at Annapolis and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, firing the first subborne Regulus air-breathing missiles from the U.S.S. Tunny, taking an advanced course at Newport, R.I.'s Naval War College...
...Criminal Kiss. Within 24 hours more than 1,000 dock workers held a mass protest meeting outside the gates of the Royal Albert Dock, delegates from every Ford plant petitioned Home Secretary R. A. ("Rab") Butler, and the Bishop of Southwark denounced Magistrate Rose's sentence as "savage and inhuman." Unfortunately, the Widow Christos' case was not the only one. British newspapers were still quivering over the case of a young engaged couple who were haled into court for committing "an act of lewd, obscene and disgusting nature such as to cause offense to diverse of Her Majesty...
...June 20, 1910, in Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, a pretty, impressible girl of 21 named Eleanor Butler Alexander was overshadowed at her own wedding. So. two summers out of Harvard, was the groom. Behind them, in a front pew, sat the groom's father -famous spectacles, famous mustache, famous teeth, famous granite jaw-the great Theodore Roosevelt, not two summers out of the White House. Among the guests in the church: no fewer than 500 of T.R.'s old Rough Riders...
...weeks of forewarning, all the struck hospitals had laid in extra stocks of food and linens, had enrolled volunteers who ran trays (with pickup meals on paper plates), trundled patients to and from operating theaters, operated elevators. One Park Avenue matron, Mrs. Sidney Milan, showed up with her butler: she passed out trays while he ran an elevator. Since professional staffs (doctors and nurses) were not involved, patients suffered no serious ill effects...