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...bonds. Last week Cuba witnessed a surprising combination of those two commonplaces. At the head of a protective committee two U. S. Senators marched into the Presidential Palace in Havana for no other purpose than to dun. The committee's chairman was Senator Gerald P. Nye; its counsel, Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...Ohio's Representative Theodore E. Burton introduced a resolution to empower the President to prohibit at his discretion export of arms & munitions to the aggressor in any war. Then & there arose the issue which has divided U. S. neutrality-seekers ever since, setting the Senate implacably against the President and State Department. Unwilling to let the President pick sides in a war by naming the aggressor, isolationist Senators asserted that an arms embargo should apply automatically to all belligerents. Otherwise, they argued, the embargoed nation would be certain to strike back exactly as Germany had struck. Firmly the State...
...Died. Burton Emmett, 63, co-founder and vice president of Newell-Emmett Co. (advertising), from which he resigned in 1928 to devote himself to art and book collecting; of heart disease; in Melfa...
Died. Dr. Alfred Edgar Burton, 78, first dean of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1902-22); of heart disease; in Gloucester, Mass...
...Though the President does not like criticism from Business, observers credited him with taking pains not to give Business too much offense. Soon the new Federal Communications Commission will begin a $750,000 investigation, instigated by Montana's sharpshooting Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, of huge American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Were a ruthless, inquisitorial Pecora hired as the Commission's special counsel, Business would have shuddered. Instead, former Governor Oliver Max Gardner of North Carolina, a conservative liberal who now has a rich corporate law practice, was persuaded by the President last week to take the job. With...