Word: hitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dropped in, unannounced, on the Supreme Court to see Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton sworn in as a Justice...
...chairman of the Senate's war-contracts investigating committee, Democrat Harry Truman leaned heavily on Republican Harold Hitz Burton. Chairman Truman seldom made a major move without first talking it over with Ohio's husky, square-faced junior Senator. Harry Truman liked Lawyer Burton's insistence on facts and fairness, his conscientious work...
Washington dopesters promptly began speculating on his successor. Two best bets: Vermont's Warren Robinson Austin or Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, both able Republicans. Democratic possibilities also mentioned: new Labor Secretary Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach or U.S. District Judge Sherman ("Shay") Minton, onetime Congressman of Indiana...
...many Senators were not willing to jump on the speed wagon. The Truman Administration could count on most of the Democrats, but the key to a two-thirds vote was held by such Republican backers of world organization as Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton. Said Delegate-Senator Vandenberg last week: "This will not be the battle of the century." But he would oppose any clubbing of the Senate into approval. And last week when trim, grey Harold Burton delivered a scholarly, three-hour defense of San Francisco, only three Senators were present...
...Three Republican U.S. Senators: Maine's Ralph Owen Brewster and Ohio's Harold Hitz Burton, onetime roommates (class of 1909) who attended last week's celebration, and Maine's Wallace Humphrey White...