Butterfield
Britishnoun
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Butterfield & Son for $1 billion in cash and 52.1 million Butterfield shares, currently valued at $645 million.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026
Jaeden Martell and Asa Butterfield play two very different adolescents in Oscar Boyson’s timely, cynical and incisive feature debut.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026
Butterfield resigned from the FAA in 1975 and later worked in the private business sector in California.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Alexander Butterfield, the former White House aide who revealed the existence of damaging recordings related to the break-in at the Watergate hotel in Washington DC, died aged 99 on Monday, according to his wife.
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2026
Way back in 1931 when Butterfield attacked Whig history his target was the view that history had a purpose and a goal, which was to produce our values, our institutions, our culture.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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