Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same national hookup, Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler added: "If we have $4,000,000,000 more to give away, let us turn our attention to the United States, where ... we have millions of veterans coming back . . . and slums all over. . . . First of all I am thinking of the United States of America...
Montana's Burton Kendall Wheeler, rambunctious chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee, recently proposed a Senate investigation to find out. Last week, the Wheeler committee put a burr under the Senate in the form of a 94-page report on railroad reorganizations. The report painted an ugly picture...
Montana's Britain-baiting Burton K. Wheeler, used to declaiming that private U.S. investments in foreign powers would embroil the U.S. in war, now suggested that the British raise the money by selling securities to private investors. Few U.S. investment experts thought such an enormous loan could be privately floated...
...Burton of the U.S. Naval Observatory (who should have known better) seemed to hope that Diana could be used to map the moon. But Diana's 12° radio beam is 24 times wider than the moon by the time it gets there. Even an enormously narrowed beam would not give more detail than a first-rate telescope. Other astronomers were inclined to sniff at the moon as finished astronomical business...
Montana's Democratic Burton K. Wheeler protested too: "Mr. Walker has just as much experience as any of the others mentioned...