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...chance. Just before he took position, it was announced that a county official had burned the Hudson County 1936 and 1937 poll books (which voters must sign as they vote and which were said to contain evidence of forgery). But Senator Tobey's beater, Investigator H. Ralph Burton, did his best to give the Senator something to shoot at. Burton scared up many a gamy allegation. Samples...
...first men to reach the semi-finals of the Freshman tourney are Cohn and Burton...
...When Burton became mayor of Cleveland in 1935, the city was infested with underworld mobs, riddled with police graft. He appointed young Eliot Ness safety director, started a clean-up which had spectacular results. One racketeer it dredged up was Albert Ruddy, who this week was convicted of shaking down building contractors for thousands of dollars during his 20-year reign as a union tsar. Burton earned for Cleveland, once a city shamed by its record of traffic deaths, the National Safety Award in 1939 and 1940. He turned his attention to public health, and this year Cleveland...
...former corporation lawyer, accused by political snipers of being "the little brother of private property," Burton is, nevertheless, installing a $6,000,000 addition to the Municipal light plant over the bitter protests of Cleveland utility interests. When he ran for re-election last year, Democrats, who dominate Cleveland politics, did not even put up a candidate to oppose...
...last week, onetime black sheep Harold Burton had become the G. O. P.'s featured attraction in Ohio...