Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor Macomber Cutter (United Fruit...
...defense as it has always been, the attack will find us unaware and unprepared, and as a consequence Japan may establish herself as the permanent dominant power of the Pacific, forbidding us, as defeated Germany was forbidden, to operate certain classes of ships, or to compete with the victor in any way in its waters, and possibly compelling us to pay a great indemnity and to surrender to her some part of our Pacific Coast mainland...
...Hoan, protege of the late great Socialist Victor Berger, was elected Mayor of Milwaukee in 1916 at the age of 35, has held the job ever since. Before that he served six years as City Attorney and before that he worked his way through the University of Wisconsin as a cook, ran a restaurant in Chicago while studying law. Today with a salary of $12,300 he lives in the same cheap little house he occupied when first chosen mayor. When Woodrow Wilson died in 1924 the City Council drew up a resolution of condolence to the widow...
...Riviera. The problem was obvious: the defense of Genoa and the manufacturing cities of Italy's north from a French invasion through the mountain passes and along the seacoast. The Fascist militia was mobilized, acting in reserve for the regular troops. In the field too were little King Victor Emmanuel and Il Duce, who hurried over from his conference with Chancellor Dollfuss of Austria fortnight ago (results of which were announced last week) to establish headquarters at Garessio...
DEATH BEHIND THE DOOR - Victor MacClure-Houghton Mifflin ($2). Scotland Yard's ace detective, on a busman's holiday, scents murder in accidental death. A motive of art-appreciation is proven posthumously, in a solution by confession...