Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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With almost the entire country in a pre-election state of mind owing to Premier Mussolini's action in closing, locking, bolting and barring Parliament (TIME, Dec. 24), Italian political circles suffered from a severe attack of nerves when "il duce" (the leader-Mussolini) wrote to Signor Carnazza, Minister of Public Works, and said he "had not decided" to hold general elections...
...Democratic Party, the pre-eminent candidate is McAdoo, with Underwood as a less favored rival. But the Democrats apparently will bring out a crop of favorite son candidates, not making national pre-Convention campaigns, but each going to the Convention with all or a part of his state's delegation. Such men are Senator Glass of Virginia, Senator Ralston of Indiana, Governor Smith of New York, Governor Bryan of Nebraska. The activities of the four leaders of the field...
With the peasants the Government is even more concerned, because they represent the vast majority of the population. The establishment of land banks to aid them, and the reform of the cooperative associations on the pre-revolutionary model were the measures brought forward. The principal feature of the reform of the cooperatives is that it will restore voluntary membership and will complete for the peasants that economic freedom laid down for them in the N. E. P. (New Economic Policy) formulated by M. Lenin, President of the People's Commissaries...
...Duke's immediate object is to raise 100,000,000 rubles ($51,400,000, pre-War rate) for his propaganda campaign. He appointed the Cossack General, Krasnov, as his aide-de-camp, and rented the Villa Choigny at Sauteny, Seine-et-Oise, as the temporary headquarters of the new movement...
...action of the directors was due to the desire to place the First National upon a pre-War basis. The stock had recently reached the huge price of $1,425 a share, and even during the post-War depression had not declined below $850. Before the War the stock had paid 10% quarterly and 20% extra, or 60% per annum; since 1916 the extra dividend has been 10%, making 50% altogether...