Word: burtons
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...briefly a naval architect, a magistrate in the Transvaal, a soldier in the Boer War and in World War I (D.S.O.). Outspoken and downright, he backed Edward VIII's plan to marry Wallis Warfield, plugged an Anglo-American union for the preservation of democracy, once told Senator Burton K. Wheeler to "go soak his head...
Four months ago, when Senators Ball, Burton, Hatch and Hill introduced their provocative resolution (now known as B2H2), a full-dress debate on the U.S. postwar position was unthinkable. The B2H2 resolution is the most specific of all postwar resolutions (36 to date) before Congress: it calls on the U.S. to take the initiative in forming a United Nations organization to set up machinery for peaceful settlement of disputes between nations and establish a United Nations police force to stop future aggression. Texas' Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, stuffed B2H2 into his pigeonhole...
...Congress on the basic elements of postwar U.S. foreign policy. As a step toward formulating this policy, in terms to which a great majority of U.S. citizens can subscribe, it represents a long stride down the road opened by such earlier attempts as the Senate's Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill resolution (TIME, March...
Secretary of Interior Burton K. Wheeler
...George Nakhnikian, Richard Ober, John Aloysius O'Keefe, 3d., Austin Gill Olney, William Preston Palmer, Jr., Bruce Brandon Phemister, Gerard William Renner, Charles Snelling Robinson, 2d., James Tracy Ronan, Constantine Constantine Spillotakis, Albert Myer Starr, Donald Bruce Talmage, Michael Barrett Thompson, Samuel Lombard Tucker, Charles Bingham Penrose Van Pelt, Burton Ebert Van Vort, John Damien Walsh, Phillips Noble Weeks, Phillips Whidden, Richard Robinson Wood, Edward Woodward...