Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...will be remembered that the House rejected the cruisers' amendment, after Representative Burton of Ohio had urged his colleagues to keep peace with the world and the President (TIME...
...thing, Representative Burton of Ohio, wise G. O. P. veteran, had sounded a call for "an era of peace" just before the vote. A few regular Republicans such as Mr. French of Idaho, Mr. Green of Iowa, Mr. Luce of Massachusetts, Mr. Tincher of Kansas rallied round Mr. Burton; but the majority of votes which rescued the President came from unfamiliar sources: 62 Democrats (from Mr. Jacobstein to Mr. Swank); the lone Socialist, Mr. Berger; the entire Farmer-Laborite group, Messrs. Carss, Kvale, Wefald; Republican insurgents such as Mr. Frear of Wisconsin, Mr. Sosnow-ski, the Pole from Detroit...
...Representatives Burton, Porter and Tinkham went to the White House, hoping to revive the President's interest in calling a Hague conference to codify international law. He told them that the nations of the world are too absorbed in economic problems to be interested in international codes at this time...
...passed it would establish the principle of diversion. But there the provision stuck, a contributing factor to the whole bill's long delay. Only last week was it pried loose, and then by a former enemy, Senator Willis of Ohio. Coached by sage Representative Theodore Burton of Ohio, Senator Willis proposed an amendment, "That nothing in this act shall be construed as authorizing any diversion of water from Lake Michigan." This amendment the midwesterners, who had sought a version reading ". . . does not affect in any way the question of diversion . . ." were obliged to accept in a compromise conference...
Sued for Divorce. Francis Burton Harrison, 53, onetime (1913-21) Governor General of the Philippines; by Mrs. Elizabeth Wrentmore Harrison, 25, his third wife, whom he married (1919) on the day of his divorce from his second wife; in Paris...