Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...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...
Other smaller scholarships were announced by the Corporation at the same time. The Caspar Henry Burton, Jr., scholarship, of $350, was awarded to W. M. V. Hoffman, Jr., of New York City. Hoffman received a War Degree from the University in 1920, and has attended the Law School for three years. He will now enroll in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Paul Jordan Smith has written Nomad, Cables of Cobweb. This month he waits publication of his newest book, The Key to Ulysses. Also, he is editing and interpreting Robert Burton's Anatomy of Mel- ancholy. ?Paul Gauguin (1848-1903), was a painter whose art was inspired by the primitive in nature, modified by a theory of sym- bolism in form, color, design. He declared that only in Tahiti, whither he retired, could he find proper stimulation for his work. His enthusiasm for the picturesque South Seas was shared by his good friend, Robert Louis Stevenson...