Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...World War Foreign Debt Commission is composed of: Chairman: Andrew W. Mellon; Charles E. Hughes; Herbert Hoover; Reed Smoot, Senator from Utah; Theodore E. Burton, Representative from Ohio; Charles R. Crisp, Representative from Ga.: Richard Olney, ex-Representative from Mass.; Edward N. Hurley, ex-Chairman of the Shipping Board; Secretary: Eliot Wadsworth, Asst. Secretary of the Treasury...
...Burton K. Wheeler opened his big guns on Boston Common, declaring: "Instead of a government of the people, by the people, for the people, we have a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, for Wall Street...
Nearby, under another maple, stood another chestnut stallion, Wise Counsellor, property of John S. Ward of Louisville, Ky., and Frederick Burton of Chicago...
...Harvey was 'Sawpit'; James Gordon Bennett came over the cable as 'Gaiter' and William R. Hearst as 'Gush.' For William J. Bryan, two code designations were used: 'Guilder' and 'Maxilla,' the latter possibly a delicate reference to jaw. Pomeroy Burton became 'Gumbo,' perhaps as he himself said because he was 'so often in the soup.' The code amused Mr. Pulitzer and he was forever tinkering with...
...William S. Culbertson, U. S. Tariff Commissioner, presided over sessions on International Finance, read a letter to the Institute from Congressman Theodore E. Burton, of Ohio, a member of the U. S. Debt-Funding Commission. Said Mr. Burton: "The sentiment of the people of the U. S. is overwhelmingly against release of the so-called foreign debts...