Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...When M. Jusserand retires, the senior member of the diplomatic corps in Washington will be Senor Don Juan Riano y Gayangos, Chamberlain of the King of Spain and Ambassador of his most Catholic Majesty at Washington since 1913. M. Jusserand was appointed Ambassador to the U. S. in 1903. Burton K. Wheeler, onetime Vice Presidential candidate on the LaFollette ticket, proclaimed on returning to Washington: "I am a Democrat and never ceased to be a Democrat." Governor-Elect Ferguson of Texas: 1) announced that there would be dancing at the inauguration but that she would "sit out"; 2) sent...
...treaty promise. President Wilson and Ambassador Page took the same attitude. In the Spring of 1914. the President asked that the law be repealed. After a bitter wrangle for several months this was done. Party lines were broken in the bitterness of the struggle. Senators Root, Lodge, Kenyon, MeCumber, Burton (Republicans) supported Mr. Wilson. Senators O'Gorman, Reed (Mo.), Chamberlain, Vardaman (Democrats) opposed the President...
...controversy over the unfunded debts. Three large debtors? France (four billion dollars ), Italy (two billion dollars) and Belgium (450 million dollars) have not yet made an agreement for repayment. The life of the World War Foreign Debt Commission (members include Secretaries Mellon, Hughes, Hoover, Senator Smoot, Representatives Burton and Crisp, one-time Representative Richard Olney) must be extended if it is to continue its efforts for refunding. Alternative and, perhaps, more drastic methods of collection are likely to be proposed...
...Coolidge telegraphed his felicitations to Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, President of the University of Michigan. Dr. Burton (who placed Mr. Coolidge in nomination before the Republican Convention at Cleveland last June) is recovering from a severe attack of bronchial pneumonia at Ann Arbor...
...Canby and Sherman; on which you prefer as a critic and writer of stimulating editorials-for both write editorials and both are stimulating. Miss Anne Carroll Moore's survey of children's literature in Books is unusual and Isabel Patterson does the gossip, taking her place with Burton Rascoe, with Morley, with Benet, with the anonymous and changing Kenelm Digby. Whether or not these supplements survive, it is interesting and important that the public apparently wants them and wants, too, in large quantities the Book Review section of The New York Times, which, as a purveyor of book...