Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Croaked Isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler: "The speech was designed to frighten the United States into the idea that we have got to get into the war now or else Hitler will...
...been convinced that there was a national emergency; whether he could convince enough of his fellows remained to be seen. The Senate had beaten down attempts to make the extension for only six months (proposed by Ohio's Robert Taft), for only twelve months (Ohio's Harold Burton), had finally agreed on 18 months and a limited declaration of "national peril." House leaders privately feared that the best they could hope for was a six-months' extension. The Isolationists, supposedly on the defensive, were smiting their opponents hip & thigh...
FORTUNE'S appraisal is based on the assumption, unacceptable to isolationists, that the U.S. is already engaged in an inescapable struggle. Herbert Hoover, Alfred Landon, Burton Wheeler, John L. Lewis, Charles Lindbergh and many a lesser citizen in their several ways question or deny that assumption...
...Admiral George Pettengill, commandant of the Washington naval yard, had tried to keep him out after the lad declared he shared his father's views on war. The case was carried to Knox, who ruled the Admiral out of order, put Son Richard into uniform, apologized to Father Burton...
...Senator, but he is not. A thoroughgoing progressive (Southern style), he is known as the best rough-&-tumble debater in the Senate. With 24 years' Congressional experience, 13 of them in the Senate, Tom Connally has departed just once from orthodox Democracy on a major issue-he helped Burton Wheeler lead the fight against President Roosevelt's plan to pack the Supreme Court...