Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since Publisher Knox suffered a moral defeat in Illinois, the real victor of the primary season was Governor Landon, whose half-defeat in California was offset by the margin of his victory in New Jersey. Last week as Landonites went about preening themselves, Postmaster General James Aloysius Farley mounted a platform in Grand Rapids, Mich, to crack their candidate as follows...
...Cleveland's vast Municipal Auditorium, but in a smaller chamber than Republicans will occupy for their national convention next week, another party last week held a convention. On the walls, in true political style, hung Gargantuan portraits of the party's departed heroes: Morris Hillquit, Victor Berger, Eugene V. Debs, Karl Marx. The Socialist Convention which assembled below these familiar images was no peace gathering. Not since 1919, when the party split over allegiance to the Third International had it been so divided...
...Cambridge the spring singles season also ended with the Carroll Cup races held on the mile stretch below the Weeks Bridge. Winner Saturday was James J. Anderson 2G.B., who defeated last year's victor George C. Scott G.E.S. by eight lengths...
Divorced. William Rosenwald, son of Chicago's late great Merchant Julius Rosenwald (Sears, Roebuck & Co.); by Mrs. Renee Scharf Rosenwald, daughter of Viennese Painter Victor Scharf; in Reno, Nev. Grounds: cruelty...
...discovery that Leftists are as hungry for reading matter about their favorite subject as jazz addicts or baseball fans is only the latest of many sound ideas which have germinated beneath the bald skull of Victor Gollancz. A highly successful combination of commercialism and intellectualism, he was born 43 years ago into a distinguished family of London Jews, went to Oxford, was appointed an Army schoolmaster during the War when faulty eyesight barred him from active service. After the War, he learned the publishing business thoroughly with the Ernest Benn tradepapers, branched out on his own in 1927. First Gollancz...