Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty years later militarism, triumphantly astride a prostrate world, is again threatened in its security. A handful of potential cannon fodder, organized as Future War Veterans, has laid hands on a deadly weapon which threatens to engulf the hitherto invincible strongholds of the professional murderers and their patrioteer subsidiaries...
While it was about it, the Federal Reserve Board also slapped the same margin requirements on banks, which have hitherto been free to loan as much on stocks as they saw fit. From his broker a customer could borrow only 45% of the value of his stocks, but from his banker he could borrow possibly 75%. The Reserve Board took great pains to confine its bank margin rules solely to speculative borrowing. If his bank will accommodate him, a man can still pledge his stocks for, say, 70% of their value to buy a farm or build a house. Said...
...King last week on the 58th day of his reign held his first levee as Edward VIII. Hitherto these royal receptions of men have nearly always been held in St. James's Palace ("The Court of St. James") with the Sovereign driving thither in horse-drawn state from his residence at Buckingham Palace. This procedure Edward VIII, who has his apartments in a wing of St. James's Palace and uses Buckingham Palace merely as an office, varied in two precedent-shattering respects. He held his "Court of St. James" levee in Buckingham Palace, and he drove thither...
...year ago last week Congress instructed the Federal Communications Commission to find out all there was to find out about American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Among reasons cited in support of the Congressional resolution ordering the investigation was the fact that the Bell System had hitherto been entirely overlooked as a subject for a high-powered New Deal inquiry. That omission was in itself an extraordinary tribute to the company's management, for a more likely object for Congressional scrutiny could hardly be imagined...
...abide by them until last year when the Guild began to operate in the field of low-priced dresses. For some time conscientious retailers had been returning dresses to manufacturers in the $10.75 category, alleging copies in violation of Guild rules. A number of manufacturers of these dresses, hitherto generally committed to copying higher priced dresses for a good proportion of their styles, decided that it was time to originate. They accordingly began to register their dresses with the Guild and were admitted, not as full-fledged members but as affiliates...