Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Publisher Victor Henry Hanson of the Birmingham News, Ledger and Age-Herald ... Litt.D...
...mystify the American public opinion about Italy. I chiefly refer to three of your late issues, which I have present, those of Nov. 25, 1929, April 28 and May 5, 1930, filled with fantasticalities, all tried later by facts. For instance, you say (April 28, p. 22) that King Victor Emmanuel was not wedded in Church. I can assure you that he was: the wedding took place in the Church of S. Maria degli Angeli, Oct. 24, 1896. Any common almanac would comply with this truth. Only when one is obsessed by impetuosity to forge malicious informations, he is liable...
EUGENE V. DEBS?Me Alister Coleman ?Grcenbcrg ($3.50). From the sultry summer of 1894 when he led the great Pullman strike in Chicago to the bitter Christmas Eve in 1921 when he walked free from the U. S. penitentiary at Atlanta, Eugene Victor Debs was a name to anger conservative businessmen throughout the land, to hearten the consciously downtrodden. Behind the name was a tall lanky blue-eyed man, rapidly going bald, with a genius for friendship, a heart emotionally soft, a darting forefinger, a tongue afire with vituperation. Five times was he a candidate for President...
...Alsatian stock, Debs was born Nov. 5, 1855 into a respectable bourgeois family at crude, democratic Terre Haute, Ind. His father kept a grocery store, read Victor Hugo. Gene left school at 14, spent a year scraping paint in a Vandalia railroad shop, became a locomotive fireman on the old Terre Haute & Indianapolis R. R. At 19 he gave up the only hard work he ever did because of his mother's fears for his safety...
...union" idea in the form of the American Railway Union, led it successfully through the Great Northern strike, saw it disintegrate after the Pullman strike a year later. For contempt of a labor injunction he was jailed for six months, was impregnated with Socialism by a Milwaukee visitor, Victor Berger...