Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many Britons know that they have a tattooed King. Last week the days when George V was an earnest sailor prince and expected the Throne to be taken by his elder brother Albert Victor, were glowingly recalled by Captain R. G. Griffith R. N., in the highly authoritative British Nautical Magazine...
This year's committee is as follows: Cullison Cady '35, Ernst A. Teves '35, Victor H. Kramer '35, Donald S. Carmichael '35, Rodman W. Paul '36, Rolf Kaltenborn '37, Thomas W. Farmer '35, Alan K. Hartman '36, Henry F. H. Sims '36, Walter C. Hartridge '36, John W. McCarthy '34, Robert L. Behrens '34, William C. Loring, Jr. '35, Henry E. Holm...
Zita had been to see Italy's Benito Mussolini and King Victor Emanuel III to resume negotiations for the hand of the King's 18-year-old Daughter Maria, as Pretender Otto's bride. King Victor Emanuel would not want to waste his daughter on a "political adventurer" but a King-Emperor would be another thing. Zita told him last week that Britain and France were looking at Otto as at least a possible last resort to stop the spread of Nazism southward from Germany. What, King Victor Emanuel asked, of that potent little Nazi-stopper, Austria...
...song as simple and unadorned as any piece of folk music set U. S. commercial records last week. Billy Hill's "Last Round-Up'' was played 24 times over major radio networks. It led the phonograph-record sales for Victor, Columbia and Brunswick. A sheet-music estimate was taken: in six weeks 200,000 copies had been sold, better than any song since 1929. And all this had happened not because of a publisher's plugging. The publishers of "The Last Round-Up" knowing now that they have a big song, have prayed that it will...
...Russian army air service, which lately sent stratonauts higher than any had flown before (TIME. Oct. 9), last week dropped a flyer farther than any man had ever dropped. The man dropped was a pilot named Victor Evceyef. Swaddled in heavy clothes with an oxygen mask over his face and a parachute over his stern, Evceyef went up with a comrade from Moscow Airdrome. Mile after mile the plane climbed, into atmosphere -34° F. At 4½ mi. Pilot Evceyef jumped. Instead of opening his 'chute, he plummeted for more than two minutes until he was only...