Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...backers were obtained and money raised. The names of Bernard M. Baruch, John Davison Rockefeller Jr., former President Burton of the University of Chicago, President Lowell of Harvard, William Cameron Forbes, onetime (1909-13) Governor-General of the Philippines, were secured as endorsers. A U. S. delegation of 25, headed by Mr. Wilbur and including William Allen White, Prof. George H. Blakeslee, Prof. Jeremiah W. Jenks, Prof. W. W. Willoughby, President Mary E. Woolley of Mt. Holyoke College and others, gathered. Similar efforts were undertaken in other countries?in Australia, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, the Philippines. A list...
Representative Burton (U. S.), M. Clauzel (France), Lord Onslow (Britain), Herr von Echardt (Germany) and numerous others said in effect: "At last we are marching along the road of peace...
...Burton may have sighed, privately, his thanks that at last he had something to sign. For he had been in a difficult position. He was attending a League Conference, pledged to have nothing to do with the League. He was dealing with a group of interests more diverse, and men more scheming than he had met even in his long career in U. S. politics. Then, too, he was an old man, 74, who had served 17 years in the House as Congressman from Ohio, then 6 years in the Senate (1909-15), and has already rounded out more than...
...Arbor, Mich., and Chicago, the jocund throngs were somewhat subdued, having in mind the memories of their late Presidents, Marion LeRoy Burton of the University of Michigan and Ernest DeWitt Burton of Chicago...
TIME Detroit, Mich. New York, N. Y. June 5, 1925 Sirs: While I have never been a subscriber to your magazine, I have read it with interest from time to time. I know it has a number of great admirers in this vicinity. The late Dr. Burton, President of the University of reader." Michigan, in particular, was a "constant reader...