Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, head of the U. S. delegation, suggested prohibiting the export of "asphyxiating poisonous gases and analogous liquids or materials or devices." France, Brazil, Poland, Italy, Hungary, China and Japan backed the U. S. The remaining 35 nations were either hostile or silent. The proposal was referred to a subcommittee...
Representative Theodore E. Burton of Ohio, one of the oldest men in Congress (TIME, Apr. 21, 1924, IMMIGRATION) and Temporary Chairman of the Republican National Convention that nominated President Coolidge, arrived at the head of the U. S. delegation...
...Columbus sailed into the setting sun he was not taking as big a chance as was formerly supposed. But further investigations, the results of which are still buried in scientific terminology, show that Lief himself was not the first and that dozens of explorers visited America before Columbus. Mr. Burton Kline, in the current World's Work lists five periods of exploration before Columbus came, and indicates that the wise Christopher carried with him a guide who had been on several trading expeditions to South America and Mexico. Professor Wiener of Harvard has been led through his studies of Indian...
...Born. To Burton K. Wheeler, junior LI. S. Senator from Montana, and Mrs. Wheeler, a daughter (7¼ lbs.); in Washington...
...following his election to the U. S. Senate but before he was sworn in, Burton K. Wheeler accepted $2,000 from one Gordon Campbell, Montana oil man. On Feb. 16, 1923, he accepted $2,000 from Mr. Campbell. Were these fees for services rendered in advancing the Campbell oil interests with the U. S. Department of the Interior? Or were they fees for services rendered in litigation in Montana...