Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other Vacancies. To help out harassed Republican leaders in the House, the Republican New Jersey Legislature met extraordinarily last month, ordained a special election in the 5th Congressional district on Dec. i?in time for the victor to speed to Washington and participate in House organization. Last week's Demo-cratic sweep in New Jersey (see p. 15) dampened G. 0. P. hopes that a Republican Congressman would succeed to the Republican vacancy...
...most savage election massacres that ever humbled a great party included almost every Laborite of whom the U. S. public has ever heard: former Home Minister John Robert Clynes; former War Minister Tom Shaw who declared, "I can't understand it!"; former First Lord of the Admiralty Albert Victor Alexander; former Minister of Health Arthur Greenwood; former Minister of Labor Miss Margaret ("St. Maggie") Bondfield; famed female Trade Unionist Miss "Wee Ellen" Wilkinson; and Oliver Baldwin, Socialist son & foe of Conservative Leader Stanley Baldwin. Downward through the party, defeat was uniform. In municipal council elections, Conservatives made an early...
...Manhattan, a bottle of near-beer exploded in the face of Victor Vernon, blinded him. A year later Victor Vernon heard that his son had been arrested in a stolen car, fell to the floor in a faint. When he came to he had recovered his sight. But Victor Vernon was not happy because while he was blind he had received $75 a month from the city...
...story is 1915 drama couched in the seedy terms of 1890 farce. Lily Damita, the star, is unbecomingly attired, subjected to poor lighting and a badly written rôle. O. P. Heggie, an actor of good standing, chants his horrid lines with fearful, wooden verve. The direction, by Victor Schertzinger, is atrocious. The dialog is unspeakably bad. The photography, credited to J. Roy Hunt, is an unhappy reflection on himself and his subject. And the whole is a pitiful commentary on the attempts of the glorified "radio interests" to create cinema...
Edward E. Shumaker, president of R. C. A.-Victor Co., presented his resignation, to take effect Jan. i. He is 50, long planned to retire at that...