Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This gave an inkling of the kind of administration President Truman will conduct. Administration leaders were present, also such Republicans as Senators Vandenberg, Austin and White, House Minority Leader Joe Martin, and such longtime Roosevelt opponents as Montana's Burton Wheeler and Wisconsin's Bob La Follette...
...devised the compromise on the Dumbarton Oaks voting formula; 3) written the section on treatment of liberated countries. Later the assistant President went to Capitol Hill, talked over Yalta with Senators and Representatives of both parties. Among his guests at a Senate lunch: Montana's articulate, isolationist Burton K. Wheeler, who seemed impressed if not satisfied with what he heard...
...plight of "isolation." Last week one of its lingering symbols, in the person of Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, spoke for three hours in the U.S. Senate. His were not the sentiments of traditional isolation. They were the sentiments of internationalism. But Wheeler's failure to recognize the fact and use of force in the current world was notably out of key with the U.S. mood; his speech fell flounder-flat...
Manhattan leftists scheduled a Madison Square Garden rally, with the wholehearted endorsement of the P.A.C.'s Sidney Hillman, to protest further U.S. appeasement of Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. In Congress, Senators Ball, Burton, Hill and Hatch-whose bipartisan B²H² Resolution helped put the Senate on record for international cooperation-revived their demands for a precise definition of foreign policy. Their worthy object: to tell the world in advance just what sort of postwar treaties the new senate will or will not approve, thus removing one cause of intra-Allied distrust. New York...
Laffing Room Only (book by Olsen & Johnson and Eugene Conrad; music & lyrics by Burton Lane; produced by the Messrs. Shubert and Olsen & Johnson), considering that its father was Sons o' Fun and its grandfather Hellzapoppin, is a little on the rational side. It has the family tic-love of firearms and mania for practical jokes; it casually flips a sausage in your lap, starts an uproar in the aisles, and sports a big, live brown bear. But either Laffing Room Only lacks the old lunacy, or the old lunacy lacks the lure it once...