Word: burtons
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Promptly and vocally shocked was Montana's British-baiting Burton K. Wheeler, who still suspects that Franklin Roosevelt "meddled" the U.S. into a war which was none of its business. Said he: the second front, at best, would be a "tremendous gamble." Why rush into something rash? And why settle for anything but a strictly 50-50 partnership? The British were not yet ready for a cross-Channel assault, anyway. The U.S., said Burt Wheeler, once took orders from Britain, but now seemed to be "following the demands of Mr. Stalin. . . . We ought to be extremely cautious before calling...
...Draw. Montana's Senator Burton K. Wheeler had fought for a sharp-toothed bill which would save every pre-Pearl Harbor father from the draft until the last childless man in the U.S. had been inducted. As finally amended and signed by the President, the bill was well-intentioned and toothless: fathers will be kept at the bottom of draft lists so long as this does not affect "the orderly flow of men into the armed forces...
...from a President to a Moderator, Unitarian Churches have been headed by a penologist (Sanford Bates), two college presidents (Mills College's Aurelia Reinhardt, Toledo University's Philip C. Nash). Last week the American Unitarian Association's executive committee nominated a Senator-Harold Hitz Burton, co-author of the Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March 22). The 55-year-old Senator and three-time mayor of Cleveland will take office at the Unitarians' annual meeting next...
...Senator Burton's post as Moderator is purely honorary. It will be his duty to represent the 61,000 Unitarians at various functions of note. For this he will receive travel expenses, nothing more. He must also preside over the Unitarian biennial General Conference and keep it moving. Hence Unitarian quipsters say their Moderator might better be called an "Accelerator...
Until the two-thirds rule can be repealed by Constitutional amendment, America is obligated to make the present system work through extraordinary efforts, said Burton. In deciding on treaties that will soon be forthcoming, two votes in favour of each treaty will be needed for one vote against. The treaties must (therefore be held above partisanship and petty issues, as no votes can be wasted...