Word: paul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What the Democratic Party needs," goes a new saying of Washington coinage, "is a silent Butler." The reference is to Democratic National Committee Chairman Paul Butler, whose month-long butting battles with his party's leadership in Congress (TIME, July 20) has left the unhappy taste of ashes on many a Democratic regular's tongue. Last week Hoosier Butler's noisy rampage against what he feels is a too-moderate course by Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson and House Speaker Sam Rayburn took a new turn. Paul Butler phoned Sam Rayburn for an appointment, then jogged...
Presumably, Paul Butler munched these specifics along with his crow during his meeting with Rayburn and Johnson, but when newsmen poured into Mr. Sam's office to look at the bones, everything was tidy and all was sweet harmony. "We agreed," said Rayburn, "that none of the three of us is trying to be divisive. There was no loud talk, no violent disagreement, no fightin' and scratchin'." Rayburn added that he takes no stock in demands for Butler's resignation, and that he and Johnson assured Butler that they are true to the Democratic Party...
Robert Hamer's restrained direction and Paul Beeson's camera work are fine. The film's only major fault is the screenplay, written by Hamer from an adaptation by Gore Vidal. It's a pity Vidal wasn't allowed to do the whole job. Hamer's script leaves a number of loose ends and unclear motivations; and the denouement is both trite and inexcusably abrupt. But the picture is worth seeing for its performances...
ILLINOIS' PAUL DOUGLAS: "While I do not argue with the total figures in the President's budget, I think a great many savings could be made...
...prolonged strike could throw millions out of work and close down more industries. That would clearly be a national emergency, and reason for President Eisenhower to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, seek a strike injunction that would bring the workers back to the plants for 80 days. Said Chairman Paul Carnahan of Great Lakes Steel Corp.: "I doubt that a settlement, when it comes, will originate with either management or the union. We will have to wait until an air of crisis begins to develop nationally...