Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Navy men agree that Admiral Leahy is stepping up to no soft job. After energetic Admiral Standley, who was two classes ahead of his successor at Annapolis, took over the office in 1933, he widened its scope considerably, became the Navy's No. 1 diplomat as well as its No. 1 sailor. He was a delegate to the London Disarmament Conference and the London Naval Conference. He has had to serve as Acting Secretary of the Navy during Secretary Swanson's long illness. When funds were needed for President Roosevelt's big naval program, he appeared before...
After this indignity to Leader Green, the craft union leaders assembled in Tampa in no conciliatory mood. The Metal Trades Department held their session ahead of the regular A. F. of L. meeting and their president, scholarly John P. Frey who presented the original charges against the C. I. O. unions, denounced the Lewis bloc for affording Communists a foothold in U. S. labor organizations. At the last minute, since Mr. McGrady could not be present, George L. Berry, president of the Printing Pressmen's Union and Federal Coordinator for Industrial Co-operation (NRA plan-maker), rushed to Tampa...
...saying he named Democrat Prentiss M. Brown to begin his Senate term a month and a half ahead of time. Reason: Mr. Brown would thereby gain seniority rights over other Senators who take office in January, thus adding to '"his value as a servant of the State...
...small that it flew through a crack in his bang-board. Adam Byczynski, Illinois champion and a hot favorite, husked fast but carelessly. His creditable total of 1,630 lb. was cut down to 1,466 by penalties. Well short of the Byczynski gross but a shade ahead of his net was the score of a long-faced, 38-year-old Iowan who, dressed in tennis shoes, white duck pants and an undershirt, had husked his rows more slowly but with scrupulous care. He was Carl Carlson, brother of famed Elmer, who did not bother to defend his title this...
Always two steps ahead of the crowd, the band enters on its most ambitious afternoon of the year, according to baton-twirler Irwin. However, to show that there is really no bad blood between the rival syncopators, the Harvard and Yale bands will shake hands in musical style before the fight. After marching in the bands will form together an intertwined insignia of the two colleges. Then while in massed formation, the Crimson Director, Robert W. Snyder '38, will lead the Yale song and the director of the Yale band Otto H. Helbig '38 Mus., will lead the Harvard song...