Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...cynics, they recalled that the late great blind Joseph Pulitzer was called, in the '90s, "Father of Yellow Journalism.'"* More light on the award for 1928 was shed last week by Dr. Richard Eugene Burton, Chairman of the Award Committee...
...Burton J. Hendrick, for the best biography (The Training of an American-The Earlier Life and Letters of Walter H. Page published by Houghton, Mifflin) received...
...Pulitzer awards are not officially announced until May. Dr. Richard Burton, chairman of the prize jury, let slip the news about Author Oliver's book in a lecture on "Types of Contemporary Literature" at the University of Minnesota. Upton Sinclair's Boston would have been a winner, he said, but for its "socialistic tendencies...
...Senate, Vice President Curtis banged his gavel until the muttering chamber was as quiet as a schoolroom, before he would permit Chaplain E. Barney Thorne Phillips to pray. The President's call was read, four Senators were sworn in. Ohio's Burton delivered a long, moving eulogy of the late ambassador to France, Myron Timothy Herrick. Then Indiana's Watson, now officially the majority leader, uncrossed his legs, swung himself out of his seat, moved adjournment, thus postponing commencement of the Senate's work until another...
This year Bishop Burton will be 77. For more than 30 years he has toiled with his scant and scattered 5,000 parishioners. But this year he will rest. His successor, who will be consecrated bishop of the diocese on May 15, is Dr. Henry Pryor Almon Abbott of St. Chrysostom's Church, Chicago...