Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Notable for bitterness-Candidate Petersen called Candidate Benson and his friends "racketeers"-the primary was notable also for the intervention of Franklin Roosevelt, who last month removed State WPAdministrator Victor Christgau at the insistence of Governor Benson, a New Deal ally in 1936 and potentially an even more valuable ally...
...same time the President: 1) announced that he thought WPAdministrator Harry Hopkins had been well within his rights when he applauded the candidacy of Otha Wearin, 2) discouraged the movement in the Senate to investigate WPA's political practices, 3) sent a note to Minnesota's WPAdministrator, Victor Christgau...
When Harry Hopkins fired Victor Christgau last month, Mr. Christgau said it was because he had refused to let Governor Elmer Benson get control of 60,000 Minnesota jobs for his Farmer-Labor Party, to help him get re-elected in November. Chief quarrel between Mr. Christgau and Mr. Benson had been over a $700,000 project to have 2,000 or more WPA laborers eradicate weeds-notably leafy spurge, creeping jenny-from Minnesota farms. Mr. Christgau announced he would be fired by no one but the President, who had hired him. Forced to choose between Victor Christgau...
Literature. In 1917, Dr. Wood relaxed from his more serious labors by composing and publishing a book of nonsense verses, illustrated by himself. Artistic ability seems to run in the Wood family. The scientist's daughter Margaret (Mrs. Victor C. White of Cedarhurst, L. I.), eldest of his four children, painted a portrait of him which will be presented by a group of friends to the University next week. It appears on TIME'S cover...
...corsets, musical shows were romantic, exotic and historical. The best of them, known as operettas, became minor classics and were repeatedly performed by stock light-opera companies throughout the U. S. During the peak years of U. S. operetta (1910-20), four composers dominated the field: Irish-born Victor Herbert (Naughty Marietta, etc.), Bohemian-born Charles Rudolph Friml (Katinka), Hungarian-born Sigmund Romberg (In Blossom Time), and Manhattan-born Jerome David Kern (Sally, Show Boat...