Word: bratton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Afterward Dr. Priestley, discovering how the murder really happened, forebore to reveal his knowledge to the State. The story differs from others of its ilk in that, in the usual denouement of ''bringing the criminal to justice," justice here involves neither police-courts nor retribution. Murder at Bratton Grange is sent out by the Detective Story Club...
...What is Mr. Kenny's business?" asked Senator Bratton...
fThe new chairman was Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota, next-to-youngest Senator. Senators Wagner of New York and Cutting of New Mexico are both brand-new Senators this term. The other New Mexican, Senator Bratton, and Senator McNary of Oregon were new to the Committee. The only old-timers besides Senator Walsh were Senators Kendrick of Wyoming, Pittman of Nevada, Ashurst of Arizona...
...Bratton in his letter to you has the temerity to attempt to speak for every "man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F." and the effrontery to speak insultingly of a man of whom General John J. Pershing recently said: "No man was ever faced with a greater problem than our War Secretary in 1917. . . . He met the situation with great courage, with great intelligence. ... I think I may say that no Secretary of War in American history ever realized the relationship which should exist between the Secretary of War and the Commanding General so completely...
Sirs : In connection with the mention of ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker as presidential timber, Mr. C. B. Bratton, Waco, Tex., writes (TiME, Letters, Dec. 5) : "No man that ever held a commission in the A. E. F. would vote for him." Mr. Bratton does not know all officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know one-tenth - not one one-hundredth of the officers who were in Europe ! Mr. Bratton does not know anything about the voting inclinations of any of the officers who were in Europe, except, perhaps, the comparatively infinitesimal few whom...