Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brought by the political exiles of 1848 who started Milwaukee on its way to becoming a German metropolis. Even there Socialism might have remained no more than heady beer-table talk if it had not been for two facts. One was the organizing power of the late great Socialist Victor L. Berger, onetime (1911-13, 1923-29) U. S. Representative. The other was that, even in competition with those of New York, Chicago, St. Louis and San Francisco, Milwaukee's city government was distinguished for its laxity and corruption. In 1904-06 more than 200 Republican and Democratic officials...
Less excitable, the police of New York City took no action last week when Brunswick Record Corp. narrowly won a hard race to be the first on the streets with a recorded U.S. version of THE FAMOUS HUNGARIAN SUICIDE SONG. The Victor and Decca companies were not long putting competing disks on sale...
...Chopin's Funeral March. Vocalist Bob Allen and other members of the Kemp band were notice ably affected while making the record, played 21 "masters" before turning out one good enough to record. Few who listened to the Kemp recording for Brunswick or Paul Whiteman's for Victor or Henry King's for Decca failed to confess that the melody and lyrics had a profoundly depressing effect...
Columbia's Victor Shertzinger writes songs (his bestseller: Marcheta) and directs Grace Moore's pictures. He began his musical career as a boy violinist, toured with Nordica, Sembrich, Calve. As a director he made 21 of the old Charles Ray comedies. But composing was more to his liking. He does most of his work on his pipe organ at home, tries his tunes out on his daughter Paula...
...Herex price boost was the work of bustling Victor Henry Polachek, circulation director of the whole Hearst chain, who has been giving his expert attention to the Herex all winter long. The price increase added more than $2,000 daily to the paper's depleted income. As for the 22,000 deserters, Director Polachek confidently expected that their places would soon be taken by new home-delivery readers to be snared in an aggressive campaign...