Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novelty in this year's congress will be the Model Session of the International Labor Office, which will discuss, probably over the radio, the question of an international 40 hour week. Victor H. Kramer '35, will be co-chairman...
...Victor Levintritt '35, one of the best breaststrokes in the country is an other swimmer who has developed fast under the watchful eye of Coach Ulen. Coming to Harvard from the Riverside School in New York City, which, like the Swiss navy, had a swimming team but no pool, Vie was a member of the 1935 Freshman team but was ineligible his Sophomore year. He his been beaten but twice in dual competition...
...Richmond, Va., where he was visiting a son-in-law, David Graves George was planning at last to buy a tobacco farm. For eight years the withered old hillbilly had tried to establish himself as the author of "The Wreck of the Old 97," collect phonograph royalties from Victor Talking Machine Co. on that railroad ballad. Last week his case reached the nine black-robed judges of the U. S. Supreme Court...
...White Oak Mountain, plunged off a curving trestle near Danville, Va. (see cut). George claimed that he helped pry nine bodies out of the wreckage, then went home inspired to tell the tragedy in verse. In a Federal District court he won his fight for royalties.* But when Victor appealed, the decision was reversed and his claim dismissed as fraudulent (TIME...
...editorial writer, the Supreme Court had not undertaken to decide the ownership of the ballad. All it-The Press estimated the royalties as high as $2,000,000. A more likely figure is $375,006.* had done was to pass on a technical kink and deny the legality of Victor's belated appeal from the trial court to the Circuit Court. If lazy newshawks had taken the trouble to read the Supreme Court's decision, they would have seen that David Graves George was right back where he was in 1933 prior to Victor's appeal. Before...