Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boston the 119th annual meeting of the American Unitarian Association (62,-000 communicants) elected Ohio's Senator Harold H. Burton as moderator to succeed Dr. Philip C. Nash, president of the University of the City of Toledo. An expected row between the right and left wing Unitarians never came off. The issue: leftist Unitarians want Unitarianism declared a non-Christian religion with the emphasis placed on humanitarianism...
...banquet on Friday night, probably at the Parker House, will open the conference, with Senator Harold H. Burton, Republican sponsor of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill bill, and Dean Mildred Thompson of Vassar College talking to the group. Dean Thompson has just returned from London, where she studied England's advances in education as a member of the Fullbright Commission...
...Republican side, Cincinnati's natty James Garfield Stewart, State Boss Ed Schorr's candidate, barely beat out two rivals, both last-named Herbert (TIME, March 13). One of the Herberts (Attorney General Thomas J.), was Senator Harold Burton's choice to derail the Schorr machine; he finished only 2,005 votes behind Stewart, and talked of a recount...
...Habit." Franklin Roosevelt did a little spade work on his own. While White House reporters stared incredulously, Montana's bitterly anti-Roosevelt Senator Burton K. Wheeler walked in for his first White House visit since the spring of 1940. After a 45-minute chat, Burt Wheeler emerged, told newsmen that he and the President had discussed the coming 100th anniversary celebration of Samuel F. B. Morse's telegraph.* Burt Wheeler added: "I'm against a fourth term, or a third term, for any President." But diplomatic relations had at least been reestablished...
...Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel...