Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Inez Haynes Irwin, The Spring Flight* Editor Harry P. Burton. McCall...
Unexpectedly, the Special Federal Grand Jury in the District of Columbia indicted Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana for conspiracy to defraud the U. S. of oil and gas lands in his home state. The alleged fraud is of the most ancient and bewhiskered type , in the land-grabbing business: no one person is allowed to get a permit to prospect over more than 2,560 acres, so crooked prospectors use dummies. Allegedly, some 9,000 acres were so secured by one Gordon Campbell,- client of the Butte, Mont., law firm of Wheeler & Baldwin, allegedly with Mr. Wheeler...
...first glance exciting. Yet President Coolidge and Chief Justice Taft were sorry not be there; they sent long telegrams. Other messages from famed U. S. men* poured in: "Congratulations," they said; "Many Happy Returns of the Day." For these four old men?J. A. Smith, Congressman Theodore E. Burton, Harvey D. Goulder, Probate Judge Alexander Hadden?had all completed 50 years of law practice in Cleveland, were being dined in consequence by the Cleveland Bar Association...
George B. Siddall, toastmaster, welcomed the four, read telegrams, handed them in sheaves around the table. His hair was white as the table napery, but these gentlemen ? Messrs. Burton, Goulder, Smith, Hadden?were among the older men at the Cleveland Bar when he came there in 1893, he said. He called upon them each in turn and they rose to reply. The well-fed lawyers of Cleveland, fathers of the law, bent forward, giving ear to the forefathers of their association...
...smiling faces of Charles W. Bryan, Charles G. Dawes, Burton K. Wheeler...