Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of the Senate's war-contracts investigating committee, Democrat Harry Truman leaned heavily on Republican Harold Hitz Burton. Chairman Truman seldom made a major move without first talking it over with Ohio's husky, square-faced junior Senator. Harry Truman liked Lawyer Burton's insistence on facts and fairness, his conscientious work...
Last week President Truman called Harold Burton to the White House, told him that he was going to appoint him to the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Senator Burton, who has had plenty of legislative and administrative experience (he was mayor of Cleveland for six years) but has never sat on a judicial bench, was not the President's first choice. That choice had been Robert Patterson, who became the new U.S. Secretary of War (see below...
...last week Roy Barton White, president of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Co., was surprised to read in the newspapers that he, his railroad and four officials of the B. & 0. were in trouble with the Government. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler, chairman of the powerful Interstate Commerce Committee, had sent a sizzling letter about the B. & O.'s finances to OWMR Boss John W. Snyder, who is still filling the job of Federal Loan Administrator...
...banner-lined blasting of thieving politicos, has quieted down since the old raw-meat days. In recent years he has been running Hearst's dreary Boston tabloids, the Record and American, in quiet, nice-old-boy fashion. So while some of his greying onetime minions like Burton Rascoe and Charlie MacArthur may have felt a twinge of nostalgia, they could not have been surprised to hear that mellowing Walter Howey's first move on the Sunday-supplement American Weekly was a peace move: he called off the old war between his weekly and Hearst's local feature...