Word: burchett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grim, grey-haired Dr. Bessie R. Burchett, a high-school Latin teacher in Philadelphia, mortally fears Jews, radicals, labor leaders. To defend herself, she used to carry two guns, a six-shooter in her handbag, an automatic strapped to her leg under her skirt. Once she brandished a pistol in a newsman's face, declared: "Those Communists will never take me alive." Disarmed by the Board of Education, she hired two bodyguards, scattered scarehead pamphlets by the thousands, tried to break up meetings of "Reds," invited teachers to join an "American National Socialist Party." Last week her pupils...
...Wood (M I T) defeated A. H. Bryan '15, 15-11, 18-16, 18-13; Harris (M I T) defeated L. D. Dawes, 15-9, 15-11, 17-14; I. M. Street '35 defeated Love (M I T), 12-15, 15-9, 18-15, 15-12, 15-10; Burchett (M I T) defeated F. W. Knowlton...