Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Captain John J. Witherspoon '37, the reporting squad listed such veterans as Thomas B. Campion '38, Jerome C. Hunsaker '38, Joseph J. Magurn '38, and Robert Scott '38. It is expected that the more than usually successful Freshman team of last year will supply several more to this number...
...were trying to pet an A. F. of L. charter, had been fired for "incompetence, outside activity." To this familiar gesture, the miners made a familiar answer. Last week Walker County's Central Labor Union Council, having unsuccessfully demanded the dismissal of crusty School Superintendent Albert Sidney Scott, had called a good share of the county's 17,000 schoolchildren noisily out on strike...
...Scab!" at any neighboring moppets who ventured to class. One zealous unionist smashed a schoolroom window with a brick. Another threatened to horsewhip a teacher. Now thoroughly agitated, the Teachers' Association met at Jasper Courthouse, unanimously agreed to keep clear of the A. F. of L., assured Superintendent Scott that no teachers were on strike. Whereupon Superintendent Scott appealed to Alabama's Governor Bibb Graves to get the students back to school...
...grounded at Khartoum with piston trouble, later crashed at Gwelo, Southern Rhodesia. This left two planes in the air, one a big, twin-motored Envoy flown by Pilot Max Findlay with three companions, the second a small single-engined Percival Vega Gull flown by Pilot Charles William Anderson Scott, winner of the 1934 England-Australia air race, and Co-Pilot Giles Guthrie...
...Johannesburg the big crowd, waiting tensely for the end of the 6,150-mi. junket, burst into cheers as the Scott-Guthrie plane slid in for a landing, winner of the $20,000 first prize in 52 hr., 56 min. The celebration was suddenly stilled by the news that Pilot Findlay and one of his companions had been killed in a crash at Abercorn, near Lake Tanganyika. Capitalist Schlesinger announced that he would donate the rest of the prize money ($30,000) to the dependents of the two dead airmen...