Word: burney
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than 20 years four men have played ring-around-a-rosy in Mississippi politics, now denouncing, now supporting each other. Hardened to sudden shifts, Mississippi "peckerwoods"* have listened for two decades with comparatively straight faces to Senators Byron Patton Harrison and Theodore Gilmore Bilbo, to Paul Burney Johnson and Martin Sennett Conner. In 1935 they began listening to another man, Hugh Lawson White, and elected him Governor, some say, for the novelty of a new political face...
Last week came the run-off Democratic primary for the Governorship. Once more the lineups were twisted unbelievably. Now Pat Harrison was supporting Mike Conner, a man he had denounced up and down the State in 1936. Now "The Man" Bilbo was supporting Paul Burney Johnson, whom he had denounced sporadically ever since 1918, when Johnson whipped him in a race for a House seat. Governor White laid off, laid cables for 1940 when he wants Bilbo's Senate seat...
...LOVED No MORE-Arthur Bernon Tourtellot - Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Life of Fanny Burney-friend of Johnson, Garrick and Burke, author of the famed Evelina and lady-in-waiting to George III's crocodile-mouthed Queen Charlotte. A sound enough biography, though the writing could be livelier...
...this particular prize, two publishers began to prepare a year ago. Harcourt printed a revised edition of its best seventh-grade history. Row, Peterson entered the lists with Building Our Nation. For twelve months Harcourt's young agent, P. K. Burney, a former high-school principal, drove furiously night and day over Texas' vast distances, covered 50,000 miles, wore out one car and bought another. Like the two agents of Row, Peterson, Paul Baker and Raymond Franklin, Agent Burney visited teachers, principals, superintendents and members of the State board to win friends for himself and his book...
Professor Tinker, B.A. Yale '99, M.A. '01, Ph.D. '02, has been on the faenlty of the Department of English at Yale since 1903. He is the author of "Dr. Johnson and Fanny Burney," 1911, "The Salon and English Letters," 1915; "Yound Boswell," 1922; "Nature's Simple Plan, 1922; and "The good Estate of Poetry," 1929; and is the editor of "Letters of James Boawell...