Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soul over the face of the British Empire . . . hated by his former followers and ignored by his Tory colleagues." Winston Churchill, Sir Samuel Hoare, George V, Montagu Norman are less sensational exhibits in the British tent. But before the British Intelligence Service, the Marquess of Reading and Sir Ellice Victor Sassoon. who shifted a fortune of 85 million dollars Mex. to China to escape high taxes, the author pauses, describing their exploits with a shudder not entirely justified by his facts. Stating that conservatives now "have control of the British Intelligence Service, Unofficial Observer propagates an E. Phillips Oppenheim theory...
...industry has supplanted the individual Maecenas. General Motors plans to spend $300,000 on its Sunday night broadcasts and Ford has outlined a budget almost as big. Ambitious tour of the season will come in the spring when the Philadelphia Orchestra will play in 30 cities, sponsored by RCA-Victor Co. Rumor persists that when his concerts are over Conductor Leopold Stokowski intends to act in a cinema portraying the life of his hero, Richard Wagner...
Television has had one of the oddest histories of any human enterprise. An established technological fact, mainly accomplished by U. S. research, it refuses in the U. S. to emerge from the laboratory. With either the Zworykin iconoscope (RCA-Victor) or the Farnsworth cold-cathode dissector tube "high-definition" images equal in clarity to home cinema and 6 by 8 inches in size can be transmitted. Blond, young Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who rose from obscurity with the help of San Francisco bankers, has leased his system to England and Germany where broadcasting is in government hands. Currently television is regularly...
Down from Manhattan and Philadelphia hurried crack power executives to observe the proceedings. Up from Washington hopped President Roosevelt's two trouble-shooting young legalites, Thomas Corcoran and Benjamin Victor Cohen, co-authors of the original bill. SEC was represented by Chief Counsel John J. Burns. Also on hand was white-crowned Lawyer John William Davis, whose imposing presence generated much of the interest in an otherwise dull case...
...visiting Professors are Karl Victor, Professor of German Philosophy at the University of Giessen, Germany, and Charles Cestre, Professor of American Literature and Civilization at the Faculte des Lettres, Paris. Professor Victor will be Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture during the first half-year. Professor Cestre will be Exchange Professor from France during the first half-year. He held the same position at Harvard...