Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Greatest number of Socialist votes ever polled in the U. S. was 919,799 for Eugene Victor Debs...
...Long a Dry, he ran as a Resubmissionist. Senator-elect Van Nuys, a longtime Democratic worker, favors Repeal and beer. There was a real partisan revenge in the defeat of New Hampshire's Senator since 1919, George Higgins Moses, whose tart tongue has made many a Democrat wince.* Victor over him was Democrat Fred H. Brown, onetime Governor, new Public Service Commissioner. The Brown attack: "Moses is a hireling of the power interests. The Insulls and others paid Moses' campaign expenses. He hasn't been a square-shooter in New Hampshire politics in a generation. He votes...
...bird-cage and 21. He was soon called "The Boy Gambler" and banked his own faro. He was in Goldfield during the 1906 boom, made a million dollars in mining stocks. His contemporaries in those days included the late Tex Rickard, who was running a gambling hall, and Charles Victor Bob, engineer-promoter. His gambling halls grew so large that his cashiers began handling $5,000,000 a year. Nevadans regard him as one of the best friends their sagebrushy State has ever had, for he remained there after having grown rich on its resources. The Nevada-mined fortunes...
...immediate enforcement of the people's will. Ordinarily the delay is of no consequence; but so sweeping an indictment of an administration should not remain for four months officially unrecognized by the President. As Walter Lippman has suggested, cooperation in matters of policy between the defeated incumbent and the victor would be not merely a gracious acknowledgment but a necessary recognition of public opinion...
Socialist Thomas expects 2,000,000 popular votes next week. If he gets them he will double the party record set by Eugene Victor Debs in 1920. The Literary Digest presidential poll indicates that he will receive slightly less than 5% of the 35 to 40 million votes to be cast Nov. 8. Last week he carried straw polls against Hoover, Roosevelt and Foster at Columbia and New York Universities. Socialist electors will appear on the ballots of 44 States. Last week they were ruled off in Oklahoma because the party had failed to poll a legal sufficiency...