Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...former Klondike Gold Rush lawyer named Key Pittman was primarily responsible. Nevada's Pittman, a tall slender gentleman with a discriminating tongue for fine old whiskey and a talent for bumming cigarets from reporters, has one prime faculty-an ability to keep his mind's eye focused on the ice-cold political realities...
...younger brother Wally," testified Noah Beery, "lost $80,000, but my brother also wants Gilbert Beesemyer to be given another chance." The former movie villain had scarcely done talking when he suffered a heart attack; he had to be assisted out of the room. "My doctor told me not to come," he gasped. "But hell, I couldn't let this fellow down...
...first time in its 21 years of noisy, gaudy convening, the American Legion had its annual party last week with most of the world at war. Despite their routine horseplay which for four days turned Chicago upside down, the Legionnaires never quite achieved the hysteria of former conventions. The high was a veteran in a bonnet flourishing a baby's bottle...
...restrained pleas for the Allied cause; and General Hugh S. Johnson, who had been actively fermenting since World War II began and at Chicago finally blew out the cork. His big idea: Stay out of war. Why? Because: "We all went out in the last war to abolish all former diplomatic games of seven-toed pete with deuces wild. . . . With smiles and smirks our associates accepted our childish enthusiasms-while they took our money and our lives. . . . We were told we were going to get international decency. Boy, look at the damn thing...
...Polish Government popped up in Paris. At the Polish Embassy there it was announced that just before President Ignacy Moscicki fled from Poland to Rumania (TIME, Oct. 2) he secretly resigned and invoked a clause of the Constitution which permits the President to name his successor, naming the former Governor of Pomorze Province, a politically neutral lawyer, Wladislaw Raczkiewicz. At the Embassy the oath of office was solemnly administered to President Raczkiewicz, provoking the Nazi press to scream, "All this is a Polish farce...