Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President Marion LeRoy Burton of the University of Michigan told a convocation: "You students are lazy. You loaf, you gamble." TIME carried his remarks in the March 24 issue, with a footnote recalling that Hamlet had berated his young contemporaries in Elsinore with the words: "You jig, you amble...
...Chinese Communists. At present, he lives on the Indian-Tibet border, offering his life and knowledge to the people in that area. In Japan, the three Japanese fathers took, in refugees during the last war and helped to provide food and clothing to the homeless. Bishop Spence Burton '03 is serving in Nassau...
Kerr attempted to oust FPC Chairman Leland Olds, after loading the Commission with two of his oilcronies, Harrington Wimberly and Burton Bailing. They began a smear campaign to brand Olds as a Socialist, and the Senate rejected his renomination. Meanwhile Kerr railroaded a bill through the Senate which gave the natural gas producers legal protection against the FPC. Truman vetoed the measure, and Congress couldn't muster the necessary 2/3 majority to override the President...
...while, the Guild tried to find books that "will be permanently important." It chose the work of such writers as Poet Edwin Arlington Robinson, Novelists Aldous Huxley, Elizabeth Madox Roberts and Historian Claude Bowers. When Publisher Nelson Doubleday took over in 1934, all that changed. Guild Judge Burton Rascoe gave Guild members ten Doubleday books out of 13 in 1935. That vulnerable policy changed too; nowadays, very few Doubleday books get the Guild nod (two in 1950, none in 1951). But the shining literary promise of the founders has been altered in a private definition of great candor: "A literary...
...would be the fourth Republican in a 16-judge district. President Truman has appointed only one Republican to the Supreme Court, his senatorial friend, Harold Burton of Ohio. Of 330 persons appointed to lifetime federal judgeships since Franklin Roosevelt became President more than 18 years ago, only 19 have been Republicans...