Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor in the nominating race (equivalent to election) was Robert Rice Reynolds (no tobacconist), 47-year-old Asheville lawyer who had won the first primary by 15,000 votes against a field of four. Advocating outright repeal, he declared: "This isn't a question of bringing liquor back because it has never left...
Vincent Petrullo and Eldridge Reeves Fenimore Johnson, son of the founder of Victor Talking Machine Co., were in the airplane. They saw the amazing red men below snatch their spears and bows & arrows, and form into fighting squads of six. The Yawalapiti were going to battle the huge creature circling down upon them. The women ran into the jungle, ripping off their uluri (genital charms) as sacrifice to the demon. But the village site was too small for the plane to land. Anthropologist Petrullo & Victrola-Hein Johnson dropped a sack full of good-will offerings upon the village, flew back...
...palms of hands held against each other with the fingers interlaced and sang a song to Mr. Petrullo. He played them a song on his portable phonograph. Then he gave them images of a creature which they, a dogless people, had never seen. The figurines represented Nipper, the Victor dog listening to "His Master's Voice." Two clowns painted black & red, with nutshell rattles on their right ankles, did a dance and played a tune on pan pipes...
Edward E. Shumaker, who last autumn resigned as president of RCA-Victor Co., became the $1-a-year president of Merchantville (N. J.) First National Bank 6 Trust Co. (deposits...
...great part of the fight Sharkey was retreating. His admission that the ruling could be given to either man means that the most Sharkey deserved was a draw. Although the majority of lesser known Boston sports writers conclude that the Czeckoslovak gob was the rightful victor, such judges as Tunney, Vidmer, McGeehan, to name a few, agree in the feeling of the German's manager that the decision was a "robbery...