Word: scott
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...first time since March 4, 1927, all 96 seats in the U. S. Senate were last week legally filled. Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsvlvania rounded out the roster by appointing Joseph R. Grundy of Bristol in place of William Scott Vare, rejected. The transformation of Mr. Grundy ?"Old Joe" as he likes his friends to call him?from a tariff archlobbyist to a full-fledged Senator caused some of his more volatile colleagues to gag and splutter furiously. In the end, for all the uproar against him, he took his seat with the apparent certainty of retaining...
...dirigible bases are at Lakehurst, N. J., Akron, Ohio, Scott Field.; mooring masts at Detroit, Scott Field, Seattle, Honolulu, Fort Worth, Texas; small hangars at Langley Field, Va., Wright Field, Ohio, Aberdeen...
...Nelson, W. E. Northey Jr., M. S. O'Reilly, L. H. Rhinelander, C. H. Parker, Parker, W. F. Pedersen, Donough Prince, F. E. Remick, Brewster Righter, E. T. Ritter, W. C. Ropes, J. H. Rowell, H. E. Scott, P. M. Sheldon, F. E. Shipp, R. S. Shuman, C. V. L. Smith, C. F. Sommers, R. W. Stokes, W. K. Sturges, J. A. Thayer, H. E. Thorner, J. N. Trainer Jr., E. T. Tryon, P. A. Tyko, R. C. Walker, A. A. Weeks Jr., W. L. West, J. W. West, J. W. Welch Jr., C. A. Wheeler, H. O. Wilson...
Thoughtfully picking his nose, Referee Jack Dempsey stood in the corner of a ring in Madison Square Garden while the announcer introduced two fighters. In this corner lantern-jawed Otto von Porat, Norwegian white hope. In this corner Philip Scott, onetime London fireman. The announcer withdrew. Von Porat, Scott, boxed clumsily for a round. In the second round von Porat hit the more agile Scott in the groin. Referee Dempsey helped Scott up and declared him the winner. From the ringside a reporter for the Norway Post, telephoning the sad news to his editor in Oslo, added the suggestion that...
Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd last week flew east from Little America, discovered: 1) mountains running north and south between west longitude 150 and 145; 2) indications that the Scott Nunataks, Alexandra and Rockefeller Mountains were island-tops. Meanwhile Geologist Laurence McKinley Gould, looking for earth and rocks to dig, with George (''Mike") Thorne of Chicago (rescuer of Boy Scout Paul Siple last summer and regarded as perhaps the hardiest man in the Byrd Expedition) and John S. O'Brien, tried to climb Liv Glacier up which Byrd's plane flew to the South Pole. Thwarted, they...