Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Onto that mighty stage last week marched Lawyer Frederick H. Wood of Manhattan, victor over NRA and the Guffey Coal Act in the Schechter and Carter cases, "to challenge the constitutionality of New York State's unemployment insurance law. Since last January the law has exacted a 1% payroll tax (which will increase to 2% in 1937, 3% in 1938) from all employers of four or more persons. From the fund thus created, workers who lose their jobs after next year will, following a three-week wait, get $5 to $15 per week for not more than 16 weeks...
...much the same fashion as a sweepstakes victor gets his good news, in Seattle, Wash. last week Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was awakened in his rented house over-looking Puget Sound to be told by his wife (Actress Carlotta Monterey) that he had just won $39,314. Professor Sophus Keith Wintrier of the University of Washington had telephoned her that the Associated Press had telephoned him that the Nobel Foundation had awarded Playwright O'Neill its 1936 literature prize and the newspaper boys were on their way out. Lounging in old pants and sweater at the side...
...aging, easy-going lady who feels it is time she married, having had three lovers and a son, now grown, whom she was able to send to a good school because two possible fathers claimed his paternity, thus making him "almost legitimate." She is about to marry Victor Martinet (A. E. Matthews) who is aware of her past but wishes she would not talk about it so much. On the eve of the ceremony Victor is bowled over by a baroness. Dutiful Son Robert (Rex O'Malley), a doctor, saves the situation by seducing the baroness, to the consternation...
...free-for-all contradicted the legend with their autobiographies, offering three pictures of those ceaseless struggles that revolve around books and that are fought with the weapons of reviews, debates, lectures, gossip. Gilbert Keith Chesterton wrote of his literary life with all the suavity and aplomb of a generous victor. Poet Edgar Lee Masters described his with all the bitterness of admitted defeat. Novelist Frank Swinnerton described some staggering setbacks with the doggedly hopeful air of a championship contender who does not know he has already been knocked out several times...
Last week newshawks found Rodolphe Victor de Drambour, 70, hale, hearty and long a U. S. citizen, comfortably seated in his apartment at No. 2482 Valentine Ave., The Bronx...