Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...blessing, his old friend, Senator William Gibbs McAdoo-who served with him under Woodrow Wilson-was last week snowed under by more than 100,000 votes. That blizzard was not directly caused by the fact that during the campaign Mr. McAdoo was called too conservative, too old (74), a former Klansman (untrue). The reason that Oldster McAdoo failed of renomination was-so far as hard-headed politicians could tell - principally one plank in his opponent's platform. Opponent Sheridan Downey, erstwhile No. 2 man in Upton Sinclair's EPIC movement, onetime attorney of Dr. Francis E. ("Plan") Townsend...
...Franklin Roosevelt's definition, the nation's choice is between men with social conscience and men without. Maryland has a choice at next week's Democratic primary between Senator Millard E. Tydings, 48, and Representative David John Lewis, 69, for the former's Senate seat...
...Collins (alias Chester Howard), 27 got out of San Quentin Prison last month after doing a stretch for a payroll hold-up in San Diego. Last week in Reno, Nev. he ran across two former pals who were with him on the San Diego job. They urged him to join them in a new robbery. He said he was going straight. To fortify his soul he attended evening services at the Reno Baptist Church...
...remaining Old Bolshevik top-rank members of the Government, deserving of promotion if only for the amount of trouble he has shouldered. But even such good news as a promotion was a reflection of a purge. The announcement made passing mention of "former" Vice Premiers Vlas Chubar and Stanislav Kosior. Chubar and Kosior recently failed of election to either the Legislature of their native Ukraine or that of the Russian Socialist Federated Soviet Republic. Secretive Soviet officials would not say whether or not this prominent Bolshevik pair are still Vice Premiers, but in journalistic Moscow they were rated "finished...
...baiting Dictator Metaxas, unable to lay his hands on the rebels, last week did the next best thing. He court-martialed the 42 leaders in absentia. Sentences: death for four, including former Minister of National Economy Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Greece's late Republican firebrand Eleutherios Venizelos; life imprisonment for three; one to 25 years' imprisonment for 35 others. As a special inducement the condemned men were informed that if they gave themselves up in a month they would have the right to appeal their sentences...