Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week undiplomatic Senator William H. Smathers of New Jersey said the delay in passing the Lend-Lease Bill nearly proved that Hitler was right, that "a little band of evil men could gang up to defeat democracy." The chief isolationist, Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, merely chuckled. For his strategic purposes, this irritated attitude was a good sign: consistently through the debate Wheeler and his henchmen have striven to assume the martyr's crown, to be regarded as a tiny group of courageous idealists struggling against hopeless odds. The tactic was working well, because the Administration strategy...
...letter was sent to Senators Adams, Brewster, Burton, Butler, Bunker, Davis, Downery, Gerry, Furney, Thomas (Okia.), McNary, and Smith...
Isolationist Chief Burton K. Wheeler of Montana harked joyfully back to a Bailey speech of October 10, 1939, when the North Carolinian had said: "We are not going to get into this war. It is a European war. It is not our war. . . . If we were to get into it I should think we were the greatest pack of fools history has ever recorded...
...INDIVIDUAL SCORING Name House Goals Burton (Lowell) 3 White (Dunster) 8 Regan (Dudley) 6 LaCroix (Winthrop) 5 Tilghman (Winthrop) 5 Jenks (Eliot) 4 Lawson (Dudley) 4 Fegeland (Kirkland) 4 McNichol (Adams...
...when it comes to town next Saturday for the last game of the season, is an unknown quantity, but the Hoddermen should stand more than a fair chance of coming out on top. The Elis have a strong first line, which should push Woody Redmond, Marc Beebe, and Dave Burton to the limit, but the rest of their aggregation is below par, weak in defense and the nets...