Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other seeded players have all reached the quarter final round with comparatively easy matches. The lone exception was Al Everts, defending champion, who barely squeezed out of a three set struggle with Lin Burton, unseeded Senior entrant. Everts was far from his usual form in this match as the 7-5, 6-8, 6-3 score would indicate...
...command-some ten Senators, some 50 House members-met in the Caucus room of the Senate Office Building one night last week, gloomily chewed the bitter cud of defeat, gloomily decided that even a Senate filibuster was out of the question. Missing was their best strategist, Montana's Burton K. Wheeler, who was out beating the bushes for some additional Isolationist recruits...
...Capitol Hill the opposition conferred. Unnoted by the press, General Robert Elkington Wood, kingpin of America First, slipped into town. The bulky General moved boldly into the Capitol itself, into the private office of Montana's Isolationist Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in the Senate's Interstate Commerce Committee room...
Hugh Hyde, Dick Sorlien, Howie Ezell, Lin Burton, Russ Ellis, and Orme Wilson turned the trick with easy wins...
...other matches were equally one-sided with Ezell defeating Baker 6-2, 6-0; Burton beating Carter 7-5, 6-3; Ellis crushing Greenspan 6-3. 6-2; Wilson defeating Hafner 6-2, 6-2; and Sorlien winning by default...