Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dropped in, unannounced, on the Supreme Court to see Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton sworn in as a Justice...
...official Washington's estimate, Harold Burton was an excellent appointment. He had impressed the Senate, as few first-termers ever have, by his ability and judicial temperament. (The Senate, as is its custom with its own members, gave his appointment immediate, unanimous confirmation...
Labor did not like the Senator's co-authorship of the B2H1 (Burton-Ball-Hatch) industrial disputes bill. But the nation's press, in general, warmly applauded...
Moderate Man. Conservative by nature and training (Bowdoin College, Harvard Law School), Massachusetts-born Harold Burton has frequently been a nonpartisan, but non-crusading, progressive in action. A cautious, moderate man (no smoking, no swearing, never more than one cocktail), he is reputed to have as much devotion for the letter of the law as Owen Josephus Roberts, the resigned Justice he succeeds. When the right and left divisions of the Court are not turned arsy-versy, as they frequently have been in recent years, the new Justice may find himself (as Roberts frequently did) the scale-tipper...
...Under Secretary he was a driving administrator, cracked down on the civilian economy, was called the toughest man in Washington. Observers there, knowing that he had banked on the Supreme Court appointment that went last week to Ohio's Senator Burton, figured that he was still in line for a job outside the War Department. So Washington sized up the new Secretary as an interim appointee. But the interim might be a long...