Word: victors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fire his own boat and set them adrift in it; 3) to scuttle the cutter with all hands aboard. With himself he debated too long, for the guardsmen rushed him while he pondered. His gun cracked spitefully. Three men dropped to the deck dead-Guardsmen Sidney Sanderlin and Victor A. Lamby, U. S. Secret Service Agent Robert K. Webster...
...must to all men, Death came last week to Victor Louis Berger, famed Milwaukee Socialist. Twenty-two days prior he had eluded an automobile, run afoul of a street car, suffered a fractured skull, broken ribs. His body lay in state in the Milwaukee City Hall. Municipal offices were closed the day of his funeral. He it was who had nursed Wisconsin Socialism from a pink Fauntleroy to a ruddy, vote-mighty brawnyman...
Born in Nieder-Rehback, Austria-Hungary, 69 years ago, Victor Berger attended the Universities of Vienna and Budapest, arrived in the U. S. in 1878 with $75 in his hosen. Metal he polished for $5 a week in New York, thence progressed to Milwaukee as a school teacher. In a debate he upheld the Single Tax against Socialism, won, but, convinced by his opponent's argument, turned Socialist himself. He it was who converted Eugene V. Debs to Socialism, later boomed him quadrennially for U. S. President. In 1898 he helped establish the Socialist Party. In 1900 he became...
...Victor Berger said, "The chief fruits . . . for us have been Prohibition, the flu and the national debt...
...Died. Victor Louis Berger, 69, of Milwaukee, longtime (1911?13; 1923?27) Representative (Socialist); in Milwaukee...