Word: byrons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This imposing little questionnaire, introduced in the House last week by California's liberal young Byron Nicholson Scott, provided Washington with a brief but lurid display of political fireworks against the cloudy sky of international relations...
...reported out of committee. Only relevant comment on the Scott Resolution the State Department could make would be to name Italy, Germany and Japan as treaty breakers-which cautious Secretary Cordell Hull, who was last week golfing at Pinehurst, N. C., has thus far been careful not to do. Byron Scott, who has been trying to get the Neutrality Act repealed, at least as it affects Spain, and who had attended a dinner party of consequential U. S. liberals and newspaper bigwigs at the Soviet Embassy earlier in the week, called at the White House before introducing his resolution. First...
...ones-like the tortoise in Aesop's fable, reached the quarter-pole first with winnings of $4,448. A hair's breadth behind was curly-headed Johnny Revolta ($4,390), whose red-hot putting kept him in front of Henry Picard ($4,113), Jimmy Thomson ($3,355), Byron Nelson ($3,220), Sam Snead...
...fairness to the pros, though, it must be said that they were not used to college pitchers. They swung early most of the time and fouled off a number of base knocks. Third baseman Higgins, second sacker Doerr, and hurler Byron T. Humphreys, who pitched the last inning, all gave a good account of themselves. Manager Cronin, although one winced at his shortstopping a couple of times, really hit the ball hard. In all, the Sox garnered nine hits...
Fifty-one years ago this month the crusading Farmers' Alliance began organizing in Georgia, had 100,000 members in three years. At that time Watson was a 31-year-old lawyer who played the fiddle, spouted Byron by the hour, and was considered a born orator in a State famed for them. Becoming the Alliance leader, Watson worked as hard for Negro farmers as for white, fought the convict lease system, was denounced as a communist while his followers were shot at and chased from the State...