Word: domes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Montana first sent Burton Kendall Wheeler to the U. S. Senate (in 1922), the U. S. was trying hard to forget World War I. Mr. Wheeler's own Senatorial concerns were domestic: helping blow the lid off Teapot Dome, plugging for silverite legislation, building his reputation as an able, fighting Liberal. Among many things he was against were big armaments. But he gave little heed to foreign affairs, did not trouble to label himself an Isolationist when that word still had punch...
...been the work of one man. Fortnight ago, as the ballet season neared its end in Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, that man took part in a performance of Petrouchka. A Russian greatcoat swathed his solid form, false whiskers his jowls; a fur hat veiled his glabrous dome. S. (for "Sol" for Solomon) Hurok, impresario of the ballet, was playing a super. With him, similarly disguised, was Sportsman-Angel Julius Fleischmann (yeast), head of World-Art, Inc., which owns the ballet...
...Wheeler captured the U. S. Senate seat he has since retained. Bounding Burt was hot stuff from the start. In late 1923, as his colleague Walsh lifted the lid of the G. 0. P.'s Teapot Dome, Senator Wheeler began to pry into the man who made Warren G. Harding Pres ident : Attorney General Harry Daugherty. Daugherty's FBI agents toothcombed Montana for Wheeler dirt; finding none, they made some, concocted a charge that Wheeler had used his Senatorial influence to obtain illegal oil leases for a client. After waiting a year for the case to come...
...omitted, however, I think, one revealing thing about the man. You did not mention the monument Carl built to Flagler, Carl's also imaginative predecessor, also pioneer of Florida's "pleasure dome." Most of Florida appears to have forgotten Flagler; Carl in his heyday...
...Villard had opposed U. S. entry into the war, and in The Nation he set out to blast imperialism, war, monopoly, reaction. The Nation campaigned to have U. S. troops recalled from Santo Domingo, Haiti, Nicaragua, denounced the Treaty of Versailles, fulminated against lynching, helped to uncover the Teapot Dome oil scandals...