Word: burtness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rail labor, Congressionally represented by shrewd Senator Burt Wheeler, is conceded Washington's No. 1 lobby. Notorious is its ability to send bills crashing through in the last few days of a session; formidable is its veto of any bill to reduce the number of rail jobs available for its dues-paying members...
...BASKETBALL HIGH SCORERS Name, House Goals Lubschansky Dunster 32 Stewart, Leverett 31 Burt, Eliot 25 Smith, Kirkland 19 Cordingley, Leverett 16 Foster, Kirkland 16 Jackson, Adams 16 Macgowan, Adams 16 McGinniss, Dunster 16 Ezell, Kirkland 15 Tonkonow, Lowell 15 Keith, Leverett 14 Eisenstein, Lowell 14 Lyford, Lowell...
More jovial was the response to Mr. Wallace. Scripps-Howard Cartoonist Tal-burt summed it up by picturing a beaming figure called Third Term perched on a stairway, to the consternation of Conservative Democrats below, and quoting New York University Professor Mearns's jingle about the little man who wasn't there: "He wasn't there again today: Oh, how I wish he'd go away." Ordinarily irritated at reporters' prodding about the third term, generally inviting them to go stand in the corner, put on the dunce cap, or merely rewarding them with...
Lowman was a dark horse, although he was one of the scored players, and was not given a chance to boat Burt, who had won the tournament for the past three years. Burt, Lowman, and Palfrey got to the semi-finals as expected, but then Palfrey pulled an upset by defeating Burt after dropping the first...
Three of the seeded players in the tournament were members of the Oxford-Cambridge squad which played in England last summer, namely, Burt, Gilkey, who defeated in this tournament, and Palfrey...