Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator Burton K. Wheeler, whom I helped to elect, makes myself and a hell of a lot of other Mountain citizens sick with his anti-Roosevelt policies. I think that he should receive the same punishment that I would have received had I divulged vital military secrets to the entire world. I would also like to state that most of us Mountain boys are not afraid of Herr Hitler or anything he represents, and just as soon as President Roosevelt gives us the green light, we will...
...foreign policy: 1) the U.S. can probably lick the Japanese; 2) this would be a Navy job primarily, and the U.S. is prouder and surer of its powerful Navy than of its half-equipped Army; 3) many isolationists are rabidly anti-Japanese. Even Montana's acidulous, 100% critic Burton K. Wheeler said: "I think the President did the right thing. You may say for me that I agree with him-for the first time...
...read it. boiled over, then sent the card with a letter to General George C. Marshall, an old friend. What caused Sergeant White to boil over was the card's message: "Write today to President Roosevelt . . . that you are against our entry into the European war. (Signed) Senator Burton K. Wheeler...
...have never been so pleased over anything in my life. . . . The BBC is anathema to me. . . . There are Americans who still think English people are Bertie Woosters calling each other 'Milord' and I thought the Wodehouse broadcasts would be very helpful to people like Burton Wheeler...
Last week the 44th gave regular soldiers acute pain once again. From Companies I and L of its 174th Infantry went a telegram to Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, protesting extension of the National Guard's year of service. At week's end Major General Clifford Powell announced that this breach of military discipline had been forgiven. Next day the 44th passed through Fredericksburg, Va. From the trucks showered penciled notes-more protest. Sample text: "One year's enough. Send this to your newspaper. . . . Why not take a vote among the National Guard...