Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...imposing list of names lines the table of contents. Included are Sherwood Anderson, Robert Frost, Conrad Aiken, Lewis Mumford, Babette Deutsch, John Gould Fletcher, Mark van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Waldo Frank and many others...
...Both the candidates whom it endorsed for Governor were winners-Myers Y. Cooper of Cincinnati (Republican) and U. S. Representative Martin L. Davey* of Kent (Democrat). Both the League's candidates for the seat of its dead champion, Senator Willis, came out ahead-U.S. Representative Theodore Elijah Burton of Cleveland (Republican) and U.S. Senator Cyrus Locher of Cleveland (Democrat). But the Wet-Dry issue was confused. The victorious Messrs. Davey and Burton are famed votegetters in their own right. And the G. O. P. vote was no index to Hooverism since it contained a town-v.-country aftermath...
...Charles Burton Robbins, Assistant Secretary of War, attempted to change seats with a mechanic in a trimotored Fokker transport plane, lost his balance, was thrown to the floor of the cabin, suffered a fractured collarbone, two broken ribs. The accident occurred during a flight from Columbus, Ohio, to Washington...
...Could you have been privileged to sit at the banquet in the Hotel Astor the night of Friday June 15 and listen to the thrilling addresses so expressive of British-American fellowship and peace made by men like Fred B. Smith, S. Parkes Cadman, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Charles E. Burton and Clarence Hall Wilson (Americans) and Alfred G. Sleep. Sir. Murray Hyslop and John D. Jones (Englishmen)-could you have heard these men and the messages of King George and President Coolidge (himself a Congregationalist) you would have been so thrilled that you would surely have had the whole trip...
...Ohio last week reached the first stage of real convalescence. Carmi Alderman Thompson, voluble Clevelander who led the late Senator Willis' presidential campaign and inveighed bitterly against the invading forces of Hooverism, withdrew his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in favor of Representative Theodore Elijah Burton, venerable Hoover leader. The Thompson withdrawal meant little in itself since the Thompson candidacy looked hopeless against Mr. Burton, who has been a distinguished Senator before now (1905-15). But the Thompson cry for party harmony ("which I prize more Highly," he said) was expected to bring downstate Willis sheep into...