Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...such men as these, charges of personal animus only helped to create bitterness. Whether or not that bitterness would be effective in defeating the bill, it was of first-rate significance on its own account. Every day the bitter debate continued was a blow on a wedge splitting the hitherto solid ranks of Administration supporters...
...members, declared that strikes and picketing would not be included in the organization's policy. And last week John Lewis was taking more than official pleasure in preparing to welcome into C.I.O. the 100,000 lumberjacks and mill hands in the Federation of Wood-workers, hitherto a unit of A. F. of L.'s Carpenters & Joiners, headed by William ("Big Bill") Hutcheson. A stanch Republican, Big Bill Hutcheson was the man John Lewis knocked down in a fist fight at the 1935 A. F. of L. convention...
...throttle of the royal train as Their Majesties returned to London this week was Engineer Tom Clarke whose regular job is to drive the Coronation Scot, the latest and most lushly appointed British streamlined train. The-famed Flying Scotsman], hitherto the fastest London-Edinburgh train, makes the 392 miles in 7½ hrs. The Coronation Scot has cut this to six hours flat...
Married. Mary Pickford, 44, onetime "America's Sweetheart''; to Charles ("Buddy") Rogers. 32, onetime ''Deb's Darling''; in Hollywood. Her first husband: Owen Moore. Her second: Douglas Fairbanks. Because hitherto unmarried Bridegroom Rogers had a "sentimental aversion" to being married in the longtime Pickford-Fairbanks home, "Pickfair," the ceremony was performed on the estate of MGM Executive Louis Lighten. Only ten close friends witnessed the ceremony, but the reception at "Pickfair" was attended...
...similar to those set up in the infancy of the Russian Revolution when a Red Army was being licked into shape by ex-Tsarist officers who had to be watched closely for signs of treachery. Stalin thus aimed last week at uncovering incipient Trotskyism or other heresies in his hitherto potent military commanders, who in future must get their orders countersigned by at least one other council member (probably a civilian) mainly interested in the welfare of the Communist Party...