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...Sent for Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, arousing speculation that: 1) he would tell Bounding Burt to get busy, take to the road, if he wants to be President; 2) he was ready to anoint Mr. Wheeler as a Democratic Presidential possibility...
John N. Garner: Norman Thomas Princeton, '05: James A Farley" Paul V. Mckutt, Indian '13, and Burton K. Wheelr followed the leaders in that order...
Last fortnight de-oomphing had got as far as Washington, D. C. For two days the vicar looked over dozens of spiritual girls. At last he picked Ellen Burton, 19, big-eyed and brunette, to be Miss Spiritual Washington. True, the winner came from Alexandria, Va., eight miles across the Potomac. But she had spirituality...
Captain Tom Winship, Flun Ferner, Roger Wilson, Tommy Thomas, Lindley Burton, A1 Eipper, Lloyd Butterfield. Bill Thurston, and Berb Weiner raced for the team; assisting them in the club races later on were Bungie King. Harry Hellmeyer, Herbie Green, and several others...
Well fed and thoroughly roasted at a National Press Club dinner in Washington were 1,679 pounds of potential candidates for President: U. S. Attorney General Robert Jackson, 165 Ibs.; New York's Representative Bruce Barton, 174; Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, 195; Socialist Norman Mattoon Thomas, 185; Missouri's Senator Bennett Champ Clark, 205; Federal Security Administrator Paul Varies McNutt, 195; Michigan's Senator Arthur Hendrick Vandenberg, 180; Federal Loan Administrator Jesse Holman Jones, 230; Manhattan District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey, 150. Each gave a five-minute address (off the record) on "Reasons...