Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...EVE OF 1914-Theodor Wolff- Knopf...
...retraction was printed, and on the eve of last autumn's elections, the Inquirer's President Charles A. Tyler and Editor John T. Custis were haled before a Jefferson County grand jury in Mr. Margiotti's home grounds. "A desperate attempt to muzzle [the Inquirer] in the midst of a political campaign!" wrote Editor Custis. The Inquirer got a change of venue to Washington County and a postponement...
...Government complicity in the Stavisky scandals, were moved to rioting which was cut short by the order of Minister of the Interior Eugène Frot. When rifle fire ceased, 24 corpses lay in the streets of Paris (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934, et seq.). Last week, on the eve of the explosive anniversary, sly, black-bearded Eugène Frot, who was once doused with a bucket of slaughterhouse blood, made bold to appear as a practicing lawyer in the Paris Palais de Justice...
National Steel made $11,136,000 in 1935 as against $6,050,000 in 1934. Organized on the eve of Depression, Ernest Tener Weir's well-managed company has battled through the 1930's without a deficit and last year, for the fourth consecutive twelve-month period, rated as top earner in steel. Rivals say Mr. Weir has trimmed prices; statistics say Mr. Weir has trimmed rivals...
...spirited gentleman on the eve of ordeal hit upon the commendable scheme of drowning anxiety in wine; and incidentally lubricating the cerebellum. He did the job so thoroughly that when the examination had begun the effects had not yet worn off. But there was no occasion for regret; the scheme seemed to be working nobly. The subject matter was available; in fact, it was wellmarshalled and happily fluent. There was only one defect; the sordid mechanics of writing had slipped away...