Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaking on the subject, "America Looks Ahead," Sunday afternoon, Senator Harold B. Burton, Republican, hailed the Moscow agreements and the Connaly resolution on post-war planning, but decried the two-thirds rule for Senatorial consent to the ratification of treatics...
...Senator Burton saw in the passage of the Connally resolution, by an 85 to five majority, an indication of underlying faith in agreement. The passage of any Mill in the Senate by such a majority is most difficulty, said Burton, and that this Mill should be thus approved is promising...
...Constitutional requirement (Article II, section 2) that two-thirds of the Senators present concur in assenting to treaties made by the president, Burton declared dangerous. Where one-third plus one of the Senators thus control foreign policy, he said, the policy of the minority may be sustained, and a premium is placed upon inactivity. Under the two-thirds rule, 33 senators, possibly representing only eight per cent of the population, may decide issued involving the entire country...
...Ball, Burton, Hatch, Hill, of Minnesota, Ohio, New Mexico, Alabama, respectively...
Cleveland's mayoralty is a good springboard: Newton D. Baker became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War; Republican Mayor Harold Burton, Lausche's predecessor, is a rising U.S. Senator. More than Ohioans will watch Frank Lausche...