Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Wilson's Cabinet Messrs. Daniels, Wilson, Houston and Burleson served together for eight continuous years. I served with them six years and eight months. Lane served with them longer. Thus there were six men in that one Cabinet who served together longer than the trio mentioned in the article. I suggest you correct your statement...
Wilson went to No. 2340 S Street to die. His Cabinet scattered to their distant homes whence they had been so glamorously summoned. Mild-mannered Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General (1913-21) was off to Austin, Tex., to build up & neglected law practice; behind him he left the days when he was overlord of mails, telephone and telegraph, when cables could be confiscated at his command. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the Navy (1913-21), no longer master of Admirals, went back to the sleepy North Carolina town of Raleigh. There he shifted from cutaway to a well-worn coat, settled...
...Pensacola, James Burleson, 13 months old, and Ida Bell Vann, 18 months, picked up objects that in color resembled chocolate candy, chewed down on them. The objects-fireworks, known as "dancing devils"- exploded. Badly wounded, the children bled to death...
...Story. Eighteen sixty-seven. Texas?immense, unorganized, full of cattle for which no profitable market could be found, cattle-rustlers, land-poor cow-barons and original sin. The Del Sol ranch?sole owner, Anastasie ("Taisie") Lockhart, redhaired, beautiful, 20-year-old orphan ?her father, Burleson Lockhart, had been murdered some years previously. Broke like the rest of Texas, Taisie was at her wits' end. Her cow hands were faithful, but she couldn't carry on forever with no money to pay them. Enter the mysterious Dan McMasters, sheriff of Gonzales, son of Burleson Lockhart's best friend...
...crew that we were under the impression the papers were being sent regularly. At any rate we know they will be hereafter for we proceeded, upon receipt of the wire, to direct our editorial wrath against the circulation department. Although he, the circulation department, called the shade of Burleson to witness that the copies had been mailed, we told him that we would hold him personally responsible for the safe arrival of the Crimsons...