Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...following persons and institutions are in favor of Herbert Clark Hoover's nomination: Senators Moses, Gillett, Jones, Shortridge, Edge; Representatives Burton, Fort, Albert Johnson, A. T. Smith; Amelita Galli-Curci, Christopher Morley, Emil Fuchs, Henry Ford, Thomas Alva Edison, Emory R. Buckener, George W. Wickersham, Louis Marshall, Elihu Root Jr., George Eastman; Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Will H. Hays; Secretaries Work, Wilbur, Jardine; Postmaster-General New; Assistant Secretaries Mills, Robinson, Brown; Governors Fuller of Massachusetts, Spaulding of New Hampshire, Green of Michigan, Brewster of Maine; the Hearst...
Charles Brand sat down looking shaken with the emotion of a vicarious victory. A great many people were clapping and cheering. A great many more were laughing, waiting. They saw what was coming -saw grave old Theodore Elijah Burton arising to rebutt...
...needed. But aside from branding Mr. Brand and his kind, the episode seemed to have a larger significance not because of its connection with the Presidential campaign, which is not properly a House affair, but because of the murk it dispelled from the whole atmosphere of Congressional farm relief. Burton v. Brand was declared one of the most significant debates this session...
John Gilbert Winant, onetime (1925-26) Governor of New Hampshire, bought for his private collection the famed Edgehill portrait of Thomas Jefferson, painted by Gilbert Stuart. He bought it from Francis Burton Harrison, great-great-nephew of Thomas Jefferson, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippine Islands, now resident of Scotland. Never until now has this portrait, by many , regarded as the finest ever made by famed Gilbert Stuart, valued at $100,000, belonged to a person in no way related to famed Thomas Jefferson...
...recently that the vent in his life which he enjoyed most was his interview with Jane Cowl I think the article that most amused me was the one called "Africa a Tale of the Rhinoceros" or perhaps it was a toss up between it and a burlesque of the Burton Holmes Lectures that so thrilled the CRIMSON playgoer not long age. I am going to have the drawing "After You, Magellan framed and hung in my office. We will not go into more detail, but the reader turning from page to page will be delighted with the excellence...