Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitherto Joseph Stalin has never sent a Soviet Ambassador to Spain, but the Bolshevist Dictator last week transferred his League of Nations representative, resourceful Marcel Rosenberg, to Madrid. There Comrade Rosenberg found himself not only Soviet Ambassador but the sole Ambassador of any kind in the Spanish capital. All the others, including cigar-chewing U. S. Ambassador Claude Bowers and sherry-sipping British Ambassador Sir Henry Getty Chilton, considered it too dangerous to be in Spain at all. They were living at Hendaye, France, trying to agree on a diplomatic formula to be submitted to Spanish leaders of both sides...
...among them a goodly proportion of Roman Catholics, the 8,153 delegates and alternates represented about 25 states. The great majority boarded at tourist camps and lodgings. Poor but loud, they burst into a 17-minute demonstration when Father Charles Edward Coughlin first appeared to "democratize ' his Union, hitherto a one-man show, put steam into its campaign to elect Representative William Lemke U. S. President in November...
With this program, General Franco found himself surrounded in Seville last week not only by his Spanish staff but by individuals in Spanish uniform who obviously were Italians and Germans. Hitherto bombing by planes of the Franco-Mola forces had been so inaccurate that in London, famed Hector Bywater could write that thus far not a single Spanish ship seemed to have been sunk by air bombs. Two days later planes of the Revolution put the Government's best and biggest war boat Jaime Primero (James the First) out of action with 625-lb. bombs which scored direct hits...
Rushing things, Dictator Stalin ordered staged and broadcast this week one of his great propaganda trials to which the entire Russian nation is urged to listen in. Hitherto no Old Bolshevik leader against whom even the gravest charges have been proved has ever been executed, but this time Moscow broadly hinted that Zinoviev and Kamenev will be shot...
...defense leaped The Aeroplane, No. 1 British aviation weekly, praising his "marvelous work" for the Air Ministry, voicing "indignation" at his dismissal. At the Air Ministry, Civil Servants greeted with sly satisfaction the appointment of a new Permanent Secretary this week who is definitely silky, Colonel Sir Donald Banks, hitherto the pleasant Director General of the British Post Office...