Word: burtons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were more important things to think about. And the new week's news was worrisome: Congress suddenly got ready to give Trust Buster Thurman Arnold the unprecedented sum of $750,000-just about enough to investigate radio, observers guessed. And radio's in-&-out friend, Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, announced he would begin hearings May 31 on a bill for a radio investigation. Radio men wondered: would FCC or the industry be the target of the inquisition...
Playing a defensive game and relying on a back-hand, top-spin drive, Cohn vanquished his opponent in three straight games. Toughest men in the tournament, according to the winner, were Dan Goronstein of Dudley and Johnny Burton, of Matthews. In the match with Burton, Cohn revenged the licking he received at the hands of his opponent in the finals of last fall's Freshman tennis tournament...
...Senator Burton K. Wheeler, in Boston yesterday to speak at the America First Committee's mass meeting against entrance into the war, warned that any attempt by the President to sent the U.S. Navy into the war zone would be unconstitutional...
Aubrey Gould, Lindley Burton, and Keith Symon, in the next three singles matches, each won two-set victories...
...Travel Lecturer Burton Holmes: "Nature, I imagine, did not in igneous wantonness upheave the mountains of southern Germany, but reared them thoughtfully for Mr. Holmes within the range of his lenses...