Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...country was still fighting the Depression that had started the year before. A small enterprise which went under that year was a hay business formed by Robert Alexander Long, 24, and two young friends, one of whom was Victor Bell. "The hay crop was excellent," said
...bought turned brown and was all but unsaleable." Robert Long had come to Kansas City from his native Kentucky with $700, earned by doing farm chores and selling hickory nuts. All of his money was in the hay business and he wanted to get married. With his friend Victor Bell he peddled the lumber bought for hay sheds, recouped part of his loss. That was the beginning of Long-Bell Lumber Corp., world's greatest lumber concern under one ownership. Long-Bell grew to a company with $108,000,000 in assets. Yet assets do not always earn profits...
Since the conclusion of the Lateran Treaty in 1929 all obstacles have been removed to the creation of this most ancient, most honored office. Victor Emmanuel III would not increase his territory or his power by the assumption of the Imperial title, it would yield only an added lustre to the House of Piedmont and an increased brilliance to the coronation ceremonies. For these reasons it is impossible for Mussolini to take issue with idea. It is therefore expected that in the near future the Eternal City which has seen so many of the undulations of history may well become...
Back in New York Senor Olaya, now behind the back of an innocent Press, took up the real purpose of his visit?a loan. He dropped into J. P. Morgan & Co. But Mr. Lament seemed chilly. He dropped into National City Co. to see Victor Schoepperle, who had visited Colombia. But Vice President Schoepperle did not think a loan could be arranged unless Colombia adopted a "businesslike" administration. Weary of shopping about Wall Street for cash, President-elect Olaya consented to these terms, and sailed for Colombia with the promise of $20,000.000 in short term bank credits from National...
While Japan was tightening its grip on Manchuria last week, a baldish, blue- whiskered dissolute Russian scoundrel-brigand was plotting to tear another strip out of the ragged map of China. In Mukden, Correspondent Victor Keen of the New York Herald Tribune stumbled into a war council between five Mongolian princes and General Gregory Semenov and emerged to wireless his paper of a move to set up an independent state in Inner Mongolia...