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Dates: during 1940-1949
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White Knight. Isolationist Congressmen, after Lend-Lease went through over their protests, stormed out of the Capital to tour the country for the isolationist cause. Chief among them were Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who hates the President, dreams of riding into the White House on the crest of a post-war isolationist wave; Senator Gerald P. Nye, one of the most detested and distrusted men in the Senate; Representative Hamilton Fish, demagogic, erratic, unstable, who also dreams of being President some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WAR & PEACE: Follow What Leader? | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

...program will be under the supervision of William H. Burton, Director of Apprenticeship and Lecturer on the Principles of Teaching...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEGREE PROGRAM INAUGURATED | 9/19/1941 | See Source »

...burden of his remarks: if the U.S. tended to its knitting it could be safe from invasion; Germany was invincible; England was not to be trusted. ("England may turn against us as she has turned against France and Finland.") Sharing the sandlot rally with Isolationist Lindbergh was Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, who shouted: "I will not be silenced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OKLAHOMA: The Unsilenced | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Married. Frances Lulu Wheeler, daughter of isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler of Montana; and Allen Sayler, FCC employe; in Sandy Springs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 8, 1941 | 9/8/1941 | See Source »

Harvard Club of Worester; Robert A. Burton, Worcester, Mass

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 52 Harvard Club Scholarships Given | 9/2/1941 | See Source »

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