Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After Lincoln, F.D.R. The U.S. Civil War, in contrast, seemed remote, almost mythical, virtually genteel. But Clifford Dowdey's Experiment in Rebellion, 'Roy Meredith's Mr. Lincoln's Camera Man, Burton J. Hendrick's Lincoln's War Cabinet and a corporal's guard of books dealing with Lincoln himself testified to the apparently fathomless curiosity of the U.S. reader in the events...
Opinion on these measures was varied and led to many warm exchanges during the course of the discussion. Given especial emphasis were such proposed labor regulations as the Case Bill and the Ball-Burton Bill, whose mention aroused charges of "union busting" from pro-laborites...
...Burton Fulton, Polly's self-made father who zoomed from small-town hardware dealer to bigtime industrialist. He is Polly's hero and apparently Marquand's as well. B.F. is kindly, practical, knows how to get along with people and make money. His thinking never goes deeper than: "Any boy has a chance in America if he only sees the picture ... if he only sees the picture." He never does understand why Polly should want to ditch the Yale-bred, well-to-do childhood sweetheart she is engaged to and marry dimeless, academic New Dealer Tom Brett...
Rogge traced out the oft-told tale of the late oilman William R. Davis, who, inspired by the German Government, had tried to mediate World War II back in 1940. He also mentioned John L. Lewis, Senator Burton K. Wheeler and other touchy names in the same breath with Nazi bigwigs...
Fine Points. In Washington, Motorist William H. Burton committed 34 traffic offenses in ten minutes, got fined $1,375, drew a 495-day jail sentence when he could...