Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...usual, Journalist Radek was one smart jump ahead of his enemies. Just before he "disappeared" he managed to get printed in Izvestia, above his signature, a scorching editorial in which he flayed Trotsky and demanded Death for all "decaying-souled traitors." In this editorial Comrade Radek claimed that he personally sabotaged and foiled the Trotsky plots against Stalin, and this bold claim was expected last week to constitute Prisoner Radek's chief defense in court. It was typical of Soviet justice that, even after Radek's arrest had been admitted, Russian newspapers carried no details of the charges...
...What the 79-year-old Holy Father said to the austere, slim-fingered 60-year-old Prince of the Church who is his most trusted associate, no outsider knew. Next day, amid villagers' cheers and band music, the Pope returned from Castel Gandolfo to Vatican City ten days ahead of schedule...
Level-headed Publisher Henry Holt told Artist Mitchell that Life's life would be short, advised him to stay out of a field in which Judge and Puck were already established. Single-minded Publisher Mitchell went ahead with his plans, engaged as literary editor a young man named Edward Sandford Martin. Six years out of Harvard, where he was a founder of the Lampoon, Martin had the definite idea that that college comic could be transmuted into a professional periodical...
...leaders, half a million British proletarians liberally sprinkled with Jews went on an anti-Fascist rampage last week which turned out to be London's biggest riot in years. Every provocation had been given the proletariat by No. 1 British Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley, who had announced weeks ahead that 5,000 of his Blackshirts would march through the tortuous streets of London's Jewish quarter east of the Tower. This was interpreted by Jews and workers alike as a challenge to battle, the British Communist Party hurling its cohorts with the slogan "MOSLEY SHALL NOT PASS...
...Trinidad, Colo, for the night. Next morning he and his two passengers headed north again. Twenty minutes later, three ranchers near lonely Rattlesnake Buttes saw the plane circling in distress through the heavy blizzard. Apparently intending to land, Pilot Chidlaw cut his motor. Suddenly he saw the butte ahead, desperately gunned his ship in an attempt to clear it. He failed. Running to the wreck, the ranchers found "the mangled bodies of two men and a woman...