Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senator. Three days before election, the former chairman of the Liquor Commission, a Payne appointee, was indicted. More important was the fact that the party was splintered by factional disputes, including the bitter primary campaign in which Payne defeated Senator Owen Brewster. The Republican nominee for governor, State Senator Burton M. Cross, had three opponents-two disgruntled Republicans running as independents and an ex-Republican running as a Democrat...
...affair was nevertheless alarming: it suggested that a high government official with access to the classified treaty had given the information to the Reds. In Parliament later, Australia's foreign minister, Richard Casey, admitted the leak. (Although Casey denied the connection, members' questions pointed to one John Burton, a former top official under Casey's Laborite predecessor, Herbert V. Evatt. Burton last spring led a delegation of fellow travelers to Red China's "Pacific Peace Conference...
...listened to it on the radio. TIME reported in its issue of June 23, 1924 that a new loudspeaker had been installed on the White House radio set, said: "The President left the executive offices to go to his study to hear the nominating speech of Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton. At luncheon, he and Mrs. Coolidge heard the news of the nomination. He said nothing, but afterwards he went for a walk...
Sixty percent of the money for the pavilion came from the U.S. Treasury under the Hill-Burton Act; 20% came from the state of Georgia, and 10% each from Fulton and DeKalb counties. With the fund, Spalding and his colleagues have built a five-story hospital with 116 beds (no more than four to a room) and 33 bassinets, with modern refinements such as a central oxygen supply and a lot of airconditioning. Private rooms will cost $15 a day with bath, $12.50 without; semiprivate $11, and a bed in a four-bed ward $9. The staff will include both...
...Burton, as Author David Hulburd calls her in H Is for Heroin (Doubleday; $1.75), was a long-legged, golden-haired girl of 15 who was spending the summer in harmless idleness on the beach at "Coast City" (on the outskirts of Los Angeles) when she met Jocelyn. From Jocelyn, a 19-year-old senior, Amy learned to play hooky when high school opened; she also learned that "blowing up a joint" means smoking marijuana...