Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the closing of the American Flying Club, many ex-War pilots and a few pre-War fliers had no place to gather. A former editor of Aviation Magazine, Baron Ladislas d'Orcy (now deceased) . . . suggested that several of the fliers could meet once a week in an Italian restaurant called Marta's at No. 75 Washington Place...
...summarized the most important deportation hearing of the decade. Answerer was Harry Bridges, the long-nosed bony Australian whose power over Pacific longshore labor won him top rank in C. I. O. Hanging on his answers was hard-boiled Dean James M. ("Chink") Landis of Harvard Law School, former head of SEC, whom Madam Secretary of Labor Perkins drafted as special examiner. Also attentive, though not in the little dining room, were large shipping and industrial interests to whom Laborite Bridges personifies Satan; eminent politicians to whom the labor vote is extremely important...
...disease among its 650 passengers. Two others were off the Lebanese coast. The ships were part of the fleet of vessels, mostly run by Rumanians and Greeks, that hovers continuously off the Palestine coast. Crowded miserably aboard them are hundreds of Jewish refugees from Poland, Germany, Rumania, Hungary and former Czecho-Slovakia. At night the vessels edge closer to the shore, watching for the signal lights that mean all is clear for the landing of their cargoes. Since April 1938 more than 15,000 Jewish refugees are estimated to have illegally entered Palestine in this...
...Manhattan by special car arrived the entourage of General Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, former President of the Dominican Republic, now Commander in Chief of its army. Fresh from a round of receptions in Washington, the onetime second lieutenant in the U. S. Marines tucked in at the Waldorf-Astoria, went off on another round of receptions, including a 21 -gun salute at the World's Fair. General Trujillo's next stop, said he, would be Paris, whither he will sail in a fortnight to pick up his wife, who went there two months ago to bear a second...
...United was no longer a united family. Its chief counsel (also a director) was none other than former SEC General Counsel Johnny Burns. He and belly-laughing Floyd Carlisle wanted to play ball with SEC immediately. Chief on the opposite side of the table in United's board room was Morgan Partner George Whitney...