Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...over to them the gold it held in the name of the Austrian banks. Later, British owners of Austrian bonds had trouble getting their money. When last March the Germans goose-stepped into Czecho-Slovakia, the British Government quickly rushed through Parliament a bill forbidding British banks to transfer former Czech gold and credits (estimated as high as $100,000,000) to the new masters of Prague. Devised to protect British creditors, this measure pleased Britons more as a means of preventing the criminal from profiting by his crime...
...patriot," was questioned. The Czech mayor of Kladno was supplanted by a German commissar and, to cap it all, the Nazis levied a fine of 500,000 crowns ($16,650) on the district. Most of the money, they added, would be taken from Jews and "followers" of Eduard Benes, former President of Czecho-Slovakia...
...Former Republican Premier Dr. Juan Negrin, Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, onetime Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto, General Jose Miaja and a whole host of lesser fry were in Mexico arranging for transfers of refugees. Communist Deputy Dolores Ibarruri ("La Pasionaria") and Colonel Juan Modesto were in the Soviet Union. Famed Colonel Enrique Lister, onetime stonemason, leader of Madrid's famed Communist Fifth Regiment, was thought to be in hiding in France; openly there were President Manuel Azana, onetime Premier Jose Giral, General Vicente Rojo, onetime Premier Francisco Largo Caballero, Catalonian President Luis Companys, Basque President Jose Antonio...
...religious funeral in a Westchester chapel went: former Governor Philip F. La Follette (who flew from Wisconsin to speak an informal funeral oration) ; Indiana's onetime Governor James Putnam Goodrich; Madame Secretary of Labor Perkins; Mrs. Ogden Reid of the New York Herald Tribune; Writers Stuart Chase, John Gunther and Louis Adamic, Editor Freda Kirchwey of the Nation; Federal Judge Thomas D. Thacher, one time President of the New York City Bar Association; Banker John Hertz Sr. of Lehman Bros.; President Samuel Zemurray of United Fruit ; President Floyd Bostwick Odium of Atlas Corp., monster investment trust in which Alex...
...Standard Steel Works (railroad wheels and a wide assortment of industrial miscellany) and Baldwin-Southwark (capital goods from engines to nuts). In spite of all these, Baldwin would still be in deep Depression but for the accident of geography that established Baldwin on tidewater, and the shrewdness of former President Samuel Vauclain, who bought 61% of Midvale Co. in 1926. For well over half of Midvale's business-U. S. armament-does not swing with the ordinary cycles of depression, is bringing Baldwin Locomotive as close to the black as it can come when U. S. railroads are deep...