Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last summer Samuel ("Sam") Zemurray of New Orleans strode belligerently into a room at No. 1 Federal Street, Boston, where the directors of potent, far-flung United Fruit Co. were holding a meeting. Down on the long table in front of his old enemy, President Victor Macomber Cutter, he flung a handful of proxies. Said he: "You've been --ing up this business long enough. I'm going to straighten it out." The Bostonian directorate was profoundly and properly shocked. Nevertheless, before they adjourned they had created a new office- Managing Director in Charge of Operations-and elected...
...Zemurray-Cutter feud is 20 years old. Victor Cutter was opening new tropical divisions for United Fruit. Samuel Zemurray, Polish-Jewish immigrant who out of his savings as a fruit jobber in New Orleans had formed Cuyamel Fruit & Steamship Co., was trying to wrest control of the Caribbean Sea from United. They clashed in Guatemala when each backed a different country in the dispute, not yet settled, over the Guatemalan-Honduras boundary line. They clashed in Honduras when United invaded the country Mr. Zemurray had made his own through a $200,000 revolution. Mr. Cutter, smooth-haired Dartmouth graduate...
Late One Evening (by Audry & Waveney Carten; Harry C. Bannister, producer). Pauline Murray (Ursula Jeans, of London) meets Victor Franklin (John Buckler) under abnormal circumstances. He has just run over her in his motor car. She learns that he was a promising novelist until he inherited some money, quit work. He discovers that she is about to be married to a belted earl. So Pauline and Victor decide to forsake the world and its pomps, start all over from scratch. Then Victor writes a successful book, is rich once more. This time a little, not a motor, accident saves them...
...that year to 35,000 last year. Depression has put a number of gasping sheets out of misery. Last fortnight saw the passing of two more: the 75-year-old New Jersey Freie Zeitung, and the famed old Milwaukee Vorwaerts, founded 40 years ago by the late Socialist Victor Louis Berger...
Winthrop and Brooks played the closest game of the day with the victor in doubt to the last minute of play. Winthrop finally sank the winning basket late in the game to beat the Brooks outfit...