Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first, President Theodore Roosevelt sneered at McClure's for "muckraking," but Editor McClure assigned his staffers to rake more muck.* Ida M. Tarbell went after the Standard Oil Co.; Ray Stannard Baker, incensed at the land-grabbing railroads, wrote The Railroads on Trial; Burton J. Hendrick spilled his Story of Life Insurance. When aroused state legislatures passed laws checking the excesses of big business, and reform candidates were elected to public office, "T.R." saw the light and grinned. He called S. S. McClure's crusading muckrakers to the White House to discuss trustbusting and business regulation...
...Died. Burton Jesse Hendrick, 77, scholarly biographer-historian-journalist (McClure's Magazine-see PRESS) and three-time Pulitzer Prizewinner: once for history (The Victory at Sea, 1920 co-authored with Rear Admiral William Sowden Sims), twice for biography (The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, 1922; The Training of an American, 1928); of a heart ailment; in Manhattan...
Georgetown's victory over Dartmouth, defending Eastern Intercollegiate League champs, speaks for itself. The Navy game next Saturday is the official League opener and the Middles, although they lost the loop's second best, pitcher when they lost Ronnie Burton, are still potent...
Teachers scheduled to speak tonight are William H. Burton, lecturer on the Principles of Teaching; Abram Collier, member of the Wellesley School Board; Clifford McAvoy, educational director of the United Electrical Workers; and Alan B. Overstreet, lecturer on Government...
This morning, Nancy broke the spell. There was a vice presidency open at Charley's bank and everyone knew it lay between Charley and Roger Blakesley. The strain of waiting for President Anthony Burton to make up his mind had made Nancy taut. "Why don't you ask Burton what the score is?" she asked. "Aren't you tired of waiting...