Word: burleson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Nominations were gravely made: Long Island's Ernest Milmore Stires, Washington's James Edward Freeman, Tennessee's Thomas Frank Gailor, South Dakota's Hugh Latimer Burleson, Chicago's Charles Palmerston Anderson. On the 16th ballot the secretary declared Chicago's Anderson had received the necessary 68 votes and two over. Ninety-three* Episcopal voices joined in a solemn doxology. Charles Palmerston Anderson, 65, was born in Kemptville, Ontario, did not move to the U. S. till 1891. In 1900 he was elected Bishop Coadjutor of Chicago and became Bishop of the diocese...
Died. Edward Reynolds, 62, vice president of Postal Telegraph-Cable Co.; at New Rochelle, N. Y.; after a long illness. So that Postal employes would save their money, would not have to borrow, he founded the Employes' Mutual Investment Union. A foe of onetime (1913-21) Post-master-General Burleson. he fought War-time consolidation of telegraph lines, was dismissed from the government-operated Postal Co., was reinstated when the line was returned to private ownership...
Factions. At least one voice was raised to urge that Governor Smith take the lead against the Hoover re-election of 1932. Albert S. Burleson of Texas, Wilsonian Postmaster General, said: "Apparently the teachings of Jefferson, Jackson and Wilson have been forgotten by the Southern people." But he was drowned out by a chorus of other voices. Bishop James Cannon Jr., hero of the anti-Smith crusade in Virginia, asked for the resignation of National Chairman Raskob. So did-Georgia's W. D. ("Praying Willie") Upshaw. So did the Georgian (Atlanta), the Observer (Charlotte, N. C.), the Winston-Salem...
Editor Daniels named no prospect, pushed no man's cause unless it were his own. But in Texas his Cabinet-mate, Albert Sidney Burleson, returned to pristine vigor, gave Democrats a Cause and a Man. Texan, Dry, Protestant, he called on his party to nominate Governor Alfred E. Smith, New Yorker, Wet, Roman Catholic. To newsgatherers he said: "If Smith is nominated, he will be elected. . .. Governor Smith stands for the same things that Woodrow Wilson stood for. Wilson stood for enforcement of law, and so does Smith. Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act and Smith is against...
...statement. But he told friends that he favored Smith and would give him his wholehearted support. In Manhattan (busy with the many-million-dollar Goodyear case) Newton Diehl Baker peered at newsgath erers through horn-rimmed spectacles. With great precision he remarked: "Of course I know both Mr. Burleson and Mr. Gregory intimately. . . . Their stand for Governor Smith is extremely interesting. . . . But 1928 is a long...