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...rolled across Grandfather Roosevelt's constituency-until it came to the home States of three Democratic Senators who last spring helped defeat the Roosevelt plan to enlarge the Supreme Court: Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward Raymond Burke and Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler. Its first scheduled stop was Cheyenne...
...floor. By last week, at least nine Senators who had voted for Hugo Black had hastily announced that they would not have done so if they had been assured that he was a member of the Klan. Senators Walsh and Copeland suggested that Mr. Black resign. Montana's Burton K. Wheeler demanded that the President name an impartial board to investigate the charges...
Science itself might almost have predicted the names of those to whom all this appealed. Theodore Dreiser, Ben Hecht, Edgar Lee Masters, Burton Rascoe, John Cowper Powys, Booth Tarkington, Harry Elmer Barnes, Harry Leon Wilson and Tiffany Thayer were present one night at a dinner given in Fort's honor by Publisher J. David Stern. Fort himself said almost nothing, quietly sipped ginger ale. The others enthusiastically laid plans for a Fortean Society which would propagate Fortism to the ends of the earth. The exhilaration of that dinner passed. In 1932 Fort died in The Bronx...
Visitors in other departments will include Burton L. Cushing, head of the science department, East Boston High School, who will lecture at the Graduate School of Education on the teaching of physics; Dr. Arthur F. Jenness, associate Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska, who will instruct in Social Psychology; and Dr. Dirk J. Struik, associate professor of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who will instruct in differential geometry...
...ingratitude carries with it its own punishment both swift and effective," said Senator Guffey. As political ingrates sure to be defeated when they come up for reelection he named three Democrats, Wyoming's Joseph C. O'Mahoney, Nebraska's Edward R. Burke and Montana's Burton K. Wheeler. From Senator Guffey, a spokesman for the New Deal, this statement was not remarkable, but from Senator Guffey, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee whose job is to get Democratic Senators re-elected next year, it was dynamite. Next day, when the Senate came to order...