Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LYDIA PINKHAM IS HER NAME (279 pp.)-Jean Burton-Farrar, Straus...
...purely honorary. Harry Truman is the first President to receive the 33rd degree (Warren G. Harding was named, but died before going through the ceremony). Among the 4,200 honorary 33rd degree Masons: Generals Douglas MacArthur, Mark Clark and Jimmy Doolittle, Senator Arthur Vandenberg, Supreme Court Justice Harold Burton, Publisher Roy Howard...
...others settled into familiar attitudes-little Justices Black and Frankfurter, alert and quick of eye, just able to peer over the back of the high mahogany bench; Murphy with a starched, far-off look; Jackson with his openwork, Dutch expression; Rutledge rocklike, Reed massive and heavy-jowled, Harold Burton with an air of avuncular interest. The court began to hand out what is promised by the marble figures on the wall: Divine Inspiration, Justice, Wisdom and Truth...
...some respects, the justices were nine broiling brook's in search of a new main stream. Running down one side of the hill were Frankfurter, Jackson, Burton and Vinson. Running down the other side, a more precipitous slope, were Black, Douglas, Murphy and Rutledge. Reed ran back & forth...
...Harold Burton, ex-mayor of Cleveland, ex-Senator from Ohio, the lone Republican, a close friend of Harry Truman who appointed him. An amiable man, outpaced by his hard-running colleagues, generally regarded as the least effective justice on the court...