Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Outing. In Portland, Ore., Motorman E. E. Burton took a critical look at his hot, perspiring streetcar passengers, pulled to a stop, bought Eskimo pies for the whole crowd...
Prescription. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Bertha Burton Adams assured the superior court that she felt her life of "drudgery and trouble" would take a turn for the better if she were allowed to change her name to Gentle Dove...
...behind the scenes in Albany, Dewey campaigners were hard at work. Under the direction of State Budget Director John Burton and Banking Superintendent Elliott Bell, a corps of researchers, phrasemakers, specialists, and advisers dug for campaign fodder. One elaborate stunt: a card-index file of every Dewey pronouncement, to be used as a guide for all G.O.P. orators...
...BURTON New York City...
...season the subject of running was rarely mentioned in the Patton home. Mel never read the sport pages: "I might begin believing those things they write." When the afternoon paper was delivered to their neat, $35-a-month apartment on Beverly Hills' Burton Way, his wife tore out the sport section and put it away. As sensitive to excitement as a punch-drunk fighter is to bells, Patton didn't want any gongs ringing inside...