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Word: victor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Victor P. W. Stanwood, consular agent at Anadakabe, Madagascar, shot and killed by Captain Duverge in a dispute growing out of the wreck of the U. S. vessel Solitaire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN SERVICE: Patriots' Bones | 9/28/1931 | See Source »

...Again. When Charles Victor Bob, strapping, breezy and likeable, emerged from the West with tall tales of precious metals, he found a friend and supporter in elderly, rich August Heckscher of Manhattan. It must have grieved Friend Heckscher to learn, last October, that Promoter Bob had vanished, left behind records which demanded his arrest when he was found (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Deals & Developments | 9/7/1931 | See Source »

...occupant, big, sandy-haired and florid, made himself at home last week. Beaming with pride, he alternately jumped to the telephone, plugging one ear against the shriek of tugboat whistles to catch words of congratulation in the other, and strode happily through the flower-decked reception room, the Victor F. Lawson Memorial board room, with its walls and fireplace transplanted from the founder's home. He was Col. William Franklin ("Frank") Knox, president of the thriving Manchester (N. H.) Union & Leader, until last winter general manager of Hearst publications (TIME, Dec. 29). He was proud because he had just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: New .Face For Chicago | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...Hotsy Totsy, sleek, brown speed boat owned by Victor Kleisrath: the Gold Cup race, at Montauk, L. I.; at an average speed of 53:59 m.p.h., slightly faster than her winning time last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Who Won | 8/24/1931 | See Source »

...lived there since save when traveling and studying in Europe under the late great Pianist Ferruccio Busoni. In 1921 he won Philanthropist Harry Harkness Flagler's $1.000 prize with Hill of Dreams for orchestra; last year he was one of the winners of the Victor symphonic award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Duetting Cow | 7/20/1931 | See Source »

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