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...have sojourned in the Philippine Islands for two years or more during the period of American occupation, I venture the assertion that 90% would agree on certain fundamental points. The temerity and absurdity of shooting a "threeday" opinion in the face of such unanimity is apparent. One Francis Burton Harrison essayed to ignore the opinions of all Americans resident in the Philippines, as well as the written instructions of the Secretary of War, and he found that he had been looking down the wrong end of the telescope. Not only did his political ideas collapse in ruins but such personal...
...Although Burton Rascoe thought his The Waste Land a "thing of bitterness and beauty," a nameless London editor pronounced it "an obscure but amusing poem." The reader must judge for himself. But of his brilliance as a critic there can be little doubt, however much his taste may be in dispute...
...when, as Chief of the Bureau of Investigation in the Department of Justice under Harry Micajah Daugherty (1921-24), he was quizzed by Senate investigators about the use of one of the Bureau's codes? in an alleged Teapot Dome crockery; about trying to get evidence to "smear" Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, one of the oil scandal investigators; and about an alleged conspiracy with Mr. Daugherty to permit illegal transport of Dempsey-Carpentier fight films. Nothing came of these investigation but "Villain" Burns resigned a few weeks after "Villain" Daugherty. The new Attorney General (Harlan Piske Stone...
Governor Clement Calhoun Young of California and Lieutenant Governor Burton Fitts both welcomed the delegates warmly...
...being U. S. Attorney General. There was a flurry before Mr. Associate Justice Stone's confirmation by the Senate over the fact that he once represented J. P. Morgan & Co., and a storm over the fact that he was then trying to prosecute-some said, to persecute-Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana. But he was confirmed 71 to 6 and has become a sort of anchor man near the Court's level centre, like Chief Justice Taft in position if not in texture...