Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...World War, in some Colonial wars, in a few civil wars. Not until 1935 did the first flagrant, consistent abuse of the Red Cross symbol occur. Then giant red crosses painted on Ethiopian hospitals became welcome targets for Italian airmen. Against this abuse, International Red Cross President Max Huber, former justice of The Hague's Permanent Court for International Justice, ineffectively protested in person to Dictator Benito Mussolini...
...eyed Novelist Compton Mackenzie, whose plans for a pro-Edward book, The Windsor Tapestry, were quashed by the Duke himself. "We want him back!" wailed Author Mackenzie. "We don't want to send greetings to France. We want to send them to Fort Belvedere [the Duke's former residence outside London]. The country needs him, for he is the greatest influence for the peace of Europe...
...army fled toward Vancouver's poor but sympathetic East End, they picked up post office inkwells and pieces of metalwork, hurled them at department-store windows. Damage was estimated at $50,000, 40 sit-downers and police had to be hospitalized. Among the most seriously hurt was a former Communist leader, Steve Brodie, now styled as secretary of the Single Unemployed Protective Association. Vancouver's Mayor George Clark Mille promised an investigation of Leader Brodie's beating...
Proudest achievement of Führer Adolf Hitler's internal policies has been the Nazi solution of former republican Germany's grave unemployment problem. In 1933 there were 7,000,000 unemployed in Germany. Today-according to the Reich's figures-there are only 338,000 unemployed, only 37,000 of these employable. In 1933 there were 12,300,000 workers in Germany. In 1938 there...
...alumnae," nearly all have gone back to their old trades. There many of them do missionary work, start local classes. But several have gone to college after the summer course and one made Phi Beta Kappa. To show "what Bryn Mawr meant to me," one alumna led a former director of the school into a new, glistening, modern bathroom in her tenement flat, boasted: "There's not another bathroom for miles around...