Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago, the Dominion set a Commonwealth precedent by making Franklin Delano Roosevelt's friend, Minister Leighton McCarthy, the first Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Last week it upped the Canadian Ministers in the Soviet Union (Leolyn Dana Wilgress), Brazil (Jean Desy) and China (retired Major General Victor Wentworth Odium) to ambassador's rank...
Coast Guardsman Victor Mature's molars were tugged out in Boston-two of the few that never showed in photographs. He confided to the local press the things most desired by every sailor when he reaches port: a soft bed and a dirty joke...
...hear the Budapest, confident that the great quartet music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert will be exquisitely interpreted. The Budapest four play with the warmest understanding of their scores, the subtlest of teamwork and an almost incredible matching of tone. Their splendid recorded performances for Victor and Columbia have recently sold to the lively tune of about 300,000 records a year...
...Republican victor was Chester O. Carrier, 47, longtime Grayson County attorney. Quiet, slow-spoken and slightly rotund, Carrier had punched cattle in Wyoming, railroaded in Pennsylvania, sold Bibles in the Appalachians. Outside Grayson County, no one knew much about him. But they did know Dan Talbott...
...days before, two New York labor reporters had asked John L. Lewis the most unexpected question of the year: Would he support F.D.R. for re-election in 1944? The dead-pan answer, indirectly quoted by the N.Y. Post's young labor columnist Victor Riesel: "It all depended on whom the Republicans nominated [Lewis] said almost softly. . . . Lewis would probably take Governor Dewey. Any other G.O.P. nomination would force him to consider backing Mr. Roosevelt...