Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...BURTON K. WHEELER...
...Year of Their Lives." Thousands of good, individual voters confided their fears in letters to Congressmen. A natural target for this barrage was the man who stood head & shoulders above other Congressional oppositionists: Montana's distinguished chameleon, Senator BURTON KENDALL WHEELER. Changeable on many things, but long against war, armaments and intervention. Burt Wheeler last week had drawn 3,935 wires, letters, postcards against conscription...
...didn't know what they were going to do, but were determined to do something. Harry Hopkins, conferring endlessly, smiled a satisfied smile. He was now certain of 900 delegates out of 1,100; John Nance Garner's career heeded only a suitable monument; Montana's Burton K. Wheeler had been bought off ten days before by a personal promise from Franklin Roosevelt that the foreign-policy plank would be as isolationist as Mr. Wheeler. Maryland's Millard Tydings was stubborn but negligible...
Last week the Senate had up a proposal to legalize the President's stratagem. One of the majority of 67 Senators who voted for this belated "aid short of war" was Burton Wheeler. On the Senate floor next day he again opposed "steps to get us into war." Said he: "... I do not want to have to break with the Administration; I do not want to have to oppose the Democratic Party; but if it becomes necessary to break with the Democratic Party, I shall break with it if it is going to be a war party." Telegrams poured...
...diminutive Isaac Burton Tigrett of Jackson, Tenn. took on the presidency of diminutive (48 miles) Birmingham & Northwestern Railroad as a sideline to his banking business. Eight years later he was a dyed-in-the-wool railroad man, head of Gulf, Mobile & Northern, and going strong. Four times in the next 20 years Railroader Tigrett enlarged his line, each time taking over another road, until he had 824 miles of right of way from Jackson to Mobile and New Orleans. Last week he stepped out of the diminutive class, stood to get a major trunk line from St. Louis...