Word: victor
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...personal triumph for Thomas Penney Jr., smart young Buffalo lawyer, Wartime aviator and Yaleman (1918), who as a special assistant Attorney General represented New York State. He and his arguments had beaten no less famed an advocate than Representative James Montgomery Beck, counsel for New Jersey. Another victor was Arthur Hilly, corporation counsel for New York City, who appeared before the Supreme Court to plead for enlarged municipal water rights...
Died. Walter Ansel Strong, 47, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, president of The Chicago Daily News Inc. which bought it in 1925 after the death of its owner Victor Fremont Lawson for over $13,500,000 (a record price for a daily newspaper); of coronary occlusion (stoppage of blood vessels at the heart); in Winnetka, Ill. A onetime (1926-27) director of the Associated Press, he was a guarantor of the Chicago Civic Opera, a member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association. Publisher Strong also bought (1929) and consolidated with the News the Chicago Journal, Chicago's oldest daily...
Rigoletto, Caro nome and Tutte le feste by Soprano Lily Pons (Victor, $2)?The singer who within the past fortnight has stormed Cleveland and Cincinnati. The first aria is the one which did the trick in Cleveland...
Saint Saëns' Symphony No. 1 by Conductor Piero Coppola and Symphony Orchestra (Victor, $6.50)?A French importation of the French composer at his cool, smooth best...
Exeter achieved a decisive win in Class A with 72 points, trailed by Andover, 49 1-2 and by Worcester Academy, last year's victors, 31, Brookline High, with 21 3-5 points, was closely pressed in Class B by Lawrence High with 19 points. Watertown High won the victor's shield in Class...