Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Touchy Congressional isolationists jumped a mile. Snorted Representative Paul Shafer of Michigan, a member of the Military Affairs Committee: "You, Colonel Wedgwood, are one of the principal cogs in Great Britain's propaganda machine. . . ." Said Montana's bull-like Senator Burton Wheeler: "I resent a member of the British Parliament coming to the United States to criticize the American Congress...
...Montana the Great Falls News asked voters: "If Senator [Burton K.] Wheeler were a candidate for re-election today, would you vote for him or against him? Did you vote for Wheeler for Senator last November?" Result, projected from early returns: Isolationist Leader Wheeler would be defeated by from 100,000 to 150,000 votes (last autumn...
While Franklin Roosevelt sat planning in the White House, enemies of his foreign policy took advantage of his silence to start a counterattack. They were led by Montana's isolationist Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler. Ever since he was beaten in the Supreme Court fight in 1937 by Burt Wheeler and his forces, the President has obviously been a little afraid of the trouble that Wheeler could stir up. Senator Wheeler last week had plenty of ammunition for his attack, one revelation, one prophecy, one dare, one warning and (with Senator Taft) one report...
Dare. Senator Wheeler next dared the President to ask Congress for a declaration of war. If Congress approved such a declaration, said Burton Wheeler, he would be one of the first to back...
That request of George Marshall's drew no fire from legislators, for regulars swing no political cats. But his other requests produced plenty of fireworks from such lawmakers as Burton Wheeler, Hiram Johnson, Charles McNary. Best guess at week's end was that Congress would wait to hear what the public and Franklin D. Roosevelt...