Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only the Laborites still opposed, Dublin's de facto recognition of Rome's conquest was voted 72-to-11. Since each ambassador or minister of King George is the direct personal representative of His Majesty, the appointing of an Irish Free State minister at Rome accredited to "Victor Emanuel III, King of Italy and Emperor of Ethiopia" had to be done by George VI. Mr. de Valera therefore posted a letter direct to Buckingham Palace, advised His Majesty to take the necessary action, enclosed the official papers for him to sign...
...made up for it. Dedicated "to the peoples of Spain and China," this show was devoted almost exclusively to excoriations in paint of the contemporary conquerors and their technique. Most were better as expressions of hot feeling than as paintings. A few, by Max Weber, Nathanial Dirk, Arnold Blanch, Victor Candell, William Cropper, Mervin Jules, were excellent as both. None equaled a set of etchings by Picasso called Dreams and Lies of Franco, caricaturing El Caudillo as an inhuman, hairy nightmare. Favorite painting of a group of Amalgamated Clothing Workers who showed up at the opening was Two Generations...
...cover that day. But such convenience bred its carelessness and, for example, all United Press men had to be warned against foolishly exposing themselves after a machine-gun bullet bounced off H. R. ("Bud") Ekins' tin hat. While Shanghai was a battlefield, New York Herald Tribune's Victor Keen took a day off and was married...
...Panted Victor Schmeling: "I hope now I will be entitled to a fight for the championship against Joe Louis...
Divorced. Clifford Victor Herbert, son of the late Composer Victor Herbert; by Helen Meher Herbert; in Los Angeles...