Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said Timesman Cortesi: "The objective in Mexico is not ... to pave the way for invading armies, but ... to create a diversion south of the Rio Grande capable of diverting the attention of the United States . . . from events in Europe." Next day, Hal Burton reported substantially the same facts to the New York Daily News...
...numbed by the President's complete command of the 1940 nomination, contented themselves with bumbling. John Garner said nothing, mourned the ups & downs of Washington's ball club. Paul McNutt rolled back from a national tour still beating a lonesome drum. Jim Farley shook postmasters' hands. Burton K. Wheeler took a die-hard stand for Isolation. Cordell Hull, as usual, sawed wood...
...Colonel Burton Oliver Lewis, second in command at the Proving Ground, tried putting his arm around Mr. Barlow's shoulder. It was a fatal gesture. Mr. Barlow, without waiting for his bomb, exploded. He shouted: "I'm on the spot. I'm going to get the horselaugh of the whole nation. I'm going. . . ." Into his car he hopped, drove fiercely away, abandoning glmite, goats, goatherds, photographers, Congressmen and Colonel Lewis...
...Stanford '36; Edgar J. Kemler, of Baltimore, Md., Johns Hopkins '37; Robert J. M. Matteson, of Bennington, Va., Middlebury '38; Paul F. McGuire, of Wauwatosa, Wis., Wisconsin '37; Hugh L. Stewart, of Arlington, Va., Kansas State '31; James E. Wood, of Washington, D. C., College of the Pacific '29; Burton O. Young, of Arlington, Va., Oberlin...
...clear that, if the President rejects the nomination, he cannot force the Democratic Convention to nominate any candidate except Tennessee's Cordell Hull -with the faintly possible exception of Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...