Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roman Emperor Maximianus commanded an officer named Victor, a convert to Christianity, to burn incense to Jupiter. Victor not only refused to obey but in a burst of religious fervor toppled over Jupiter's altar, smashed the god's statue. For his deed his right foot was chopped off before he was executed. In the course of time he came to be venerated as St. Victor the Martyr by the Roman Catholic Church. Years later his foot, now a relic holy to many a French Catholic, was acquired by the Paris church of St. Nicolas du Chardonnet...
Birthdays. Louis Dembitz Brandeis, 77; Samuel Insull, 74; King Victor Emmanuel of Italy, 64; Marie Dressier...
Author Walker devotes a chapter to Manhattan's No. 1 Racketeer, Owen Victor ("Owney") Madden, who under Prohibition "became, in many respects, the most important man in New York. . . . In many ways he had more sense than Capone. He was a better business man. He saw what too much publicity was doing for Capone." (Released from his latest term at Sing Sing last July, Owney Madden is now at large.) Of another Walker, Manhattan's ex-Mayor James John, he says: "If he had wanted to study, he could have led the class"; quotes Jimmy's definition...
...addition to Edmund M. Rowe '27, the coach, the following Harvard men will go to Connecticut: Julian S. Bach, Jr. '36; Victor H. Kramer '35; George Gore '34; Morris J. Litwack '34; Clement L. Harriss '34; and Joseph R. Lourie...
...fight between the Wichita, Kans., Eagle and the Wichita Beacon which started five years ago when the thick-skinned Brothers Levand-Max, Louis and John-bought the Beacon from Senator Henry Justin Allen, last summer became Wichita's best newsstory. Last week the thin-skinned Brothers Murdock-Victor and Marcellus-who own the Eagle were under the impression that the Levands had suffered a stunning defeat. Eagle headlines happily screamed the news that the two liveliest Levands, Max and Louis, had been indicted on five counts, for misleading advertising...