Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Young Bob LaFollette, with his father's platform and his father's organization, was picked as the logical winner. On his behalf Senator Shipstead, Farmer-Laborite of Minnesota, and Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Progressive Democrat of Montana, came campaigning into the state...
Standing alone, en face an entire square, fronted by a great piazza, opulent, spacious, its auditorium seven tiered, its broad stairways of scintillant marble, the Teatro Colon easily outranks, surpasses all other South American opera centers. Its seating capacity is 3500- It has been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...
After the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton late last May, Professors Billings, Tufts, Manly, Gale, Woodward and Laing of the University of Chicago knitted brows with Trustees Harold H. Swift (meats), Martin A. Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality...
Said Trustee Swift: "We are delighted ... he is a man supremely fitted to succeed the three presidents, Harper, Judson and Burton, under whose leadership the university has seen its first chapters of development...
...William Rainey Harper was President from the founding of the University in 1892 to 1906. President Harper was followed by: Harry Pratt Judson (1906-23) ; Ernest DeWitt Burton...