Word: butters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Dairy industry, with the inspection of imported milk, cream, butter and cheese, the protection of cows from diseases, the breeding of better herds, sanitary milk transportation...
...type of newspaper feature-writers in Washington known to other newsmen as "the butter brigade," the "New Patriots" are food and drink. Upon "New Patriot" careers these journalistic biographers seize to produce Sunday "human interest" articles, in which the "New Patriot" is extolled out of all bounds, his "sacrifice" overemphasized, his Federal service gilded with excessive promise...
Last fortnight President Hoover persuaded Alexander H. Legge to leave the $100,000 presidency of International Harvester Co. and serve as chairman of the Federal Farm Board at $12,000. Before the "butter brigade" could have at Mr. Legge's "sacrifice" and career, trenchant Frank R. Kent of the Baltimore Sun, an arch-Democrat except where President Hoover is concerned, wrote in "The Great Game of Politics," his daily column, as follows...
...Having beautifully buttered on successive Sundays the members of the Hoover Cabinet and practically all the assistant secretaries, they [the 'butter brigade'] are now down to the lower levels reduced to dramatizing the wives of the more conspicuous official figures. Soon, if something does not happen, they will get to their sweethearts. In this critical situation the new Farm Board is a great help. It will bring to Washington a group of new men, each of whom will be available for a nice buttery article...
...last week were the citizens of Spencer, Ind. Farm Life was dying. More than a good friend, Farm Life had been their bread and butter, their one worth while industry...