Word: buttes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the Bureau of Air Commerce was created in 1933 as a subdivision of the Department of Commerce, handsome Director Eugene Luther Vidal at once became the butt of incessant attacks. When the Bureau investigated crashes, he was accused of whitewashing his subordinates. When he devoted time to developing a "$700 plane" for private flyers, airlines screamed that he was neglecting them. When Bureau airway aids became outdated because the Government cut Bureau funds 40%, Gene Vidal got the blame. When Senator Bronson Cutting was killed in a crash. Senator Copeland's investigating committee recommended Gene Vidal...
...daily press, is a sad one. Mr. Burton testified that "his first intimation of how the picture looked came one day in October, 1934, he said, when at least fifty members of the Exchange met him upon his return from lunch, showed him the result, and made him the butt of ribald remarks and jibes. He was so offended, he testified, that he neglected his work for several days...
Sculptor Paul Manship's gigantic fountain of a leaping Prometheus has stood patiently in the sunken plaza of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center for three years, the butt of more violent criticism, more half-baked humor than any Manhattan Statue since the erection of Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue. Last week artisans at the Roman Bronze Works were putting finishing touches on one of the biggest jobs of bronze casting the company has ever handled, and workmen in Rockefeller Center were chopping holes in the Fifth Avenue pavement for a statue of Atlas destined to distract public attention from...
...each ironical development. Ghastly irony is this drama's most lethal weapon, and it is called into play so effectively and so frequently that the unhappy spectator is harrowed sick. A forlorn halfwit, for example, driven out of his warm shelter by the gangster villain, picks up a cigarette butt discarded by that villain, and by lighting it unconsciously gives a signal that draws fire from the villain's underling and thereby kills the villain...
Unable to deny that he was in fact court-martialed for desertion, M. Salengro became the butt of jokesters in Paris music halls who kept referring to "Cyclist Salengro" until members of the Blum Cabinet would have liked to scream. They appointed a "Jury of Honor" under General Marie Gustave Gamelin. Chief of the French General Staff, and this last fortnight whitewashed the Minister of Interior by discovering extenuating circumstances, but he is likely to be called "Cyclist Salengro" to his dying day. Indignant, Premier Blum was resolved to punish the man he blamed for organizing the anti-Blum newspaper...