Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Republicans was ebbing. Many a Republican Senator who had been reported ready to fight Willkie for his support for Lend-Lease voted for Lend-Lease in the end-and they were party men as influential as Oldtimer Charles McNary, or as promising as Ohio's new Senator Harold Burton. Wendell Willkie had done what enemies had said he could not do-buckle down to the hard drudgery of machine politics to help elect Republicans who stood for the things he believed in. From being on the edge of repudiation by the party two months ago, Wendell Willkie last week...
...opportunity to exercise his skill when he takes to the air. Frequently his debaters start battling over cocktails at the Willard Hotel, from which the Forum is broadcast, work themselves into a knock-down-drag-out humor even before they reach a mike. A memorable evening was provided by Burton Wheeler when he growled that the "New Deal's triple 'A' foreign policy" would "plough under every fourth American boy." Spectators at the show are also often difficult. Before he established the rule that questions from the floor must be submitted in writing, Granik was bothered...
WASHINGTON--Sen. Burton K. Wheeler, D., Mont., charged tonight that United States warships are being sent to Australia and New Zealand "to reinforce the British in Singapore and other parts of the Orient...
...with the Senate last week had finally risen to a clamor. Columnists, editorial writers, radiorators volleyed & thundered. The isolationists were cursed with bell, book and candle; Administration leaders were wigged and trimmed for their fumbling delay; cartoonists kept a brush in brine for the isolationist leader, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
Simultaneously Scripps-Howard news coverage of Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler's isolationist crusade fell into more normal perspective. Senator Wheeler's attack on Wendell Willkie as "the intrepid Trojan horse of the Republican Party"-a likely candidate for the front page a few days earlier-appeared quietly on page 17 of the New York World-Telegram. And word was reputed to have gone down to Publisher Howard's editors to lay off hereafter such features as the identification-tag melodrama...