Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing competition. From the conference, there emerged, tentatively, an agreement. Welshmen said they would not compete in Canada and South America, where U. S. capital is invested in the food packing industry, large user of tin plate. U. S. manufacturers promised to tack away from the European markets, pre-War stronghold of the Welsh...
...pre-General Strike times "Jumping Jack" was one of the most popular Laborites in England and the enfant terrible of the House of Commons. Nowadays, with jobs scarce and employers holding the whip hand, Mr. Jones no longer jumps. His howlers down cried, "Keep out the Reds, but let all the rest...
Senator Furnifold McLendel Simmons, who resigned as leader of the North Carolina Democracy and said he would vote for neither Smith nor Hoover, last week openly joined the anti-Smith Democrats. He repeated the gist of his pre-nomination statements: "I am profoundly convinced that the election of Governor Smith would be unfortunate alike to the party and the country." Reason: Tammany...
Sagely did the President of the German Republic thus allude to the present German merchant marine as a "revived fleet." The achievement summed in those two words has been prodigious, unprecedented. The victorious Allies seized from beaten Imperial Germany enough ships to reduce her pre-War merchant tonnage of 5,500,000 by almost nine-tenths, or to 600,000, yet today the merchant fleet of Republican Germany is up to 3,500,000 tons, or three-fifths of pre-War tonnage. Absolutely phenominal has been the "revival" of the North German Lloyd fleet, as statistics tell...
...films and has never done so again. The reason: she was sickened by the long and langorous close-ups which delight cinemaddicts. There are plenty of such close-ups in The Mysterious Lady. But otherwise. Miss Garbo gives a dignified and stirring performance as Russia's greatest pre-War lady spy. The man in the case (Conrad Nagel) fails to click...