Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...room in a house whether there are ladies present or not, retain their hats on their heads? For many years past all American films have shewn men, and particularly police men and detectives, entering houses rather unceremoniously wearing their hats and smoking cigars or cigarettes. Mostly the former...
Virginia - a field goal and a first down against the New Deal in the renomination of Representative Howard Worth Smith of Alexandria and the defeat of Representative Norman R. Hamilton of Portsmouth. Mr. Smith's opponent was William E. Dodd Jr., 32, son of Franklin Roosevelt's former Ambassador to Germany, picked to run against Judge Smith by Roosevelt henchmen who consider Judge Smith too independent (he helped delay the Wages & Hours Bill). Candidate Dodd was given a campaign manager from Attorney General Cummings' staff, an endorsement by C.I.O.'s John L. Lewis (whose Alexandria home...
...practical process for making flour without removing the germ. The trade was interested; present were seven foreign consuls, U. S. officials and representatives of 50% of U. S. flour production. Edward Jacob and Edgar Martin Miller, father and son, Missouri millers, invented the process; they interested Dan Brown, former Hearst circulation manager, who in turn organized Morris Mills, Inc. two years ago and directed subsequent tests. Sales claims for the germ flour: added nutritive value, superior aroma, flavor, palatability, long-keeping quality without preservatives, 25% reduction in amount of shortening needed. Chief claim: germ flour improves metabolism so greatly...
...quiet before dawn last week, a band of 400 dandelion-eating, political-minded peasants struck at the two-year rule of Greek Dictator General John Metaxas. They marched into the stony streets of Canea, ancient seaport and capital of Crete. At their head stepped former Minister of National Economy in the Athens Government, young Aristomenis Mitsotakis, nephew of Venizelos, and ex-Mayor Mountakis of Canea...
...accusation that Marxist theoreticians are as dour as they are unintelligible, the favorite Red comeback is the case of John Strachey. Cousin of the late Lytton Strachey, heir to an English baronetcy, former M.P. who in 1931 quit the Mac-Donald coalition government to join the Reds, John Strachey is a softly athletic six-footer who lectures in tails. Smoothtongued, witty, he has made himself a favorite with middle-class lecture audiences, while his Coming Struggle for Power (1933), the first and only "Party line" bestseller, made him a reputation as the nearest thing to a popularizer of the nearly...