Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Montana's arch-isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler voted against repeal of the arms embargo, against Lend-Lease, against draft extension; he protested loudly when U.S. destroyers were traded to Britain, when U.S. troops took over Iceland; he scoffed at the idea of an attack on the U.S. or that such an attack could cut off the nation from strategic materials. Last week, when Secretary of Agriculture Claude R. Wickard told a Senate subcommittee that 80,000,000 bushels of wheat could be made available for manufacture of synthetic rubber, angry Senator Wheeler wanted to know why the delay...
Bill Kissel, Ted Cohn, Bill Frothingham, Howio Ezell and Lin Burton made short shrift of their respective singles matches, and to Johnny Burton fell the distinction of playing the longest individual set of the afternoon before defeating his opponent...
...result of Editor Mencken's 25 years of "literary scavenging," this is one of the rare books that deserve the well-worn greeting "Here at last." No greater nor more useful than Bartlett's Familiar Quotations or Burton Stevenson's Home Book of Quotations, its 1,347 close-printed, double-columned pages are nevertheless packed with entertainment, edification and some valuable innovations. The quotations are dated, whenever possible, back to the first man who uttered them. They are arranged not under their authors but "under many more rubrics than any other such work can show." With careful...
...night which allowed dancing on the terrace to Howard Jones orchestra. Elections to the House Committee have been announced as Jenks, new chairman, and John Kennedy, secretary-treasurer. Also newly elected to the committee Joseph Downer, those re-elected were Gord Lyle, Del Ames, Tom Van Meter and John Burton...
Registrants included John L. Lewis, 62, Senators Burton Kendall Wheeler, 60, and Gerald P. Nye, 49, Father Charles E. Coughlin, 50, and John Florence Sullivan, 47, better known as Radio Comic Fred Allen. Not even Franklin Roosevelt, 60, was exempt. As Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy his logical classification will be 1-C, which covers all men already in military service. But a draft board composed of four World War I veterans and a 76-year-old Negro will determine...