Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Weybright wrote in the February Survey Graphic: "That 200,000 newcomers to the Federal service have been exempt from civil service in the past three years has alarmed critics of bureaucracy...
...brother temporarily dampens their ardor, her adroit manager (Reginald Owen) brings them together for one last meaningful duet. Good shot: Gilda Gray, celebrated a decade ago for her extraordinary hip movements, showing cafe patrons what made her famed. Professional Soldier (Twentieth Century-Fox). An ex-colonel of Marines (Victor McLaglen) kidnaps a Balkan...
...conclusion, let me give this solemn warning: There can be only one capital, Washington or Moscow. . . . There can be only one victor. If the Constitution wins, we win. But if the Constitution-stop! stop there-the Constitution can't lose! The fact is, it has already won, but the news has not reached certain ears...
Paramount and Fenway this week spend their evenings alternately donning buskin and sock in a felicitous double bill of "The Informer" and "Her Master's Voice". Victor McLaglen's astonishing ascent from his usual dead-pan broken-nose roles to his characterization of an informer in the Black and Tan uprisings in Dublin in 1922, giving away his pal to the police for the reward, attempting to drown his remorse in a night of mighty and generous carousal, and finally, confronted with the incontrovertible fact of his treachery, fleeing the vengeance of his pal's friends, only to be shot...
Last week President Roosevelt appointed a fifth member of the Securities & Exchange Commission to fill a vacancy created when Joseph Patrick Kennedy resigned last autumn. The post was offered to Benjamin Victor Cohen but that New Deal legalite turned it down. Sent to the Senate for confirmation was the name of William Orville ("Bill") Douglas, 37, as brilliant a professor as the New Deal has attracted to Washington. President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago, who tried to buy him away from the Yale Law School with a salary of some $20,000, declared that Bill Douglas...