Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Winship, last year's captain of the team, is scheduled to run the lang-lauf and is also entered in the jumping, which will close the two-day carnival on Saturday afternoon. Other entries in those events are Roger Wilson, Jack Crawford, and Lindley Burton...
...Publisher of Roll-Call is Carl Losey, but his name did not appear on the masthead. Neither did any other name. Devoted, according to its own statement, "to enactments of the Congress," Roll-Call was a hodgepodge of approving quotations from the speeches of isolationists like Senator Burton Wheeler, ex-Senator Rush Holt, unsigned attacks on Franklin Roosevelt, Federal spending, aid for Britain, the U. S. Army, Jews, Communists, Chinese relief. Roll-Call's slogan, twice-printed in bold type: "Keep America Christian...
Besides these unusual circumstances, the picture leaps into the middle of the heated U. S. argument between isolationists and interventionists. It shows shots of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Representative Vito Marcantonio and ex-Editor Verne Marshall (see col. 1) denouncing the President's foreign policy, Franklin Roosevelt delivering his recent broadcast to the nation and his message to Congress, Dr. George Gallup commenting on the ballots which showed that 60% of the U. S. public favor increased aid to Britain even at the risk...
Sued for Divorce. Amon Giles Carter, 60, fiercely hospitable, belligerently civic-minded Fort Worth publisher-promoter ("Dictator of Cowtown"); by Nenetta Burton Carter, 45-ish. She used to help welcome his hordes of guests at fabled "Shady Oaks," but asked for divorce on the grounds that her peripatetic husband's "absence from home and . . . failure to exhibit toward her ... affection and constant kindness" had "impaired her health and strength." Carter was divorced from his first wife...
Finn Ferner turned in the best Harvard performance in Saturday's cross-country race, run over a nine-mile course with excellent snow conditions, by finishing eleventh. Close behind him were Del Ames and Bill Halsey, fourteenth and fifteenth respectively. Lindley Burton, Roger Wilson, and Jack Crawford ended up eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth...