Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...utter layman could think this issue simple, academic, dull. It takes on liveliest political interest from the fact that 6,000,000 French voters hold paper franc Government securities and are bitterly opposed to admitting once and for all that the franc has declined to 4? from a pre-War value of 19.3?, or about 5 francs per $1. By these millions of voters the hope is nurtured that the franc, which sank as low as 2? in 1926, may rise further than its present value of 4?, perhaps to the dizzy height of 10?. To translate this hope into...
...Kansas, the number of farmers pre paring to motor through their State and across the Kaw River to the convention was estimated by a Topeka observer...
Most political district leaders give such parties but staunch Tammany Tom Farley's are perhaps the most celebrated in Manhattan. The pre-eminent success of this particular Farley Fête, which produced more congratulatory editorials than Mr. Farley's fierce but successful fight to attain the leadership of his district, could be attributed largely to the admirable Linder. Jealous Republicans, who can give no such parties in Manhattan, scoffingly suggested that the fat boy would have been kept away from the party for fear of frightening the other guests, had it not been for the fact that...
Accordingly, Germany was represented on the Council, last week, by that veteran pre-War and post-War "career diplomat," Dr. von Schubert, now Assistant Foreign Minister. Came in behalf of France her reputedly richest citizen, M. Louis Loucheur, not long since Finance Minister. (TIME, Dec. 28, 1925). Just prior to leaving Paris last week, M. Loucheur accepted the post of Minister of Labor, replacing unlucky M. André Falliére, who lost his parliamentary seat in the recent French election (TIME, April...
...Italian army outnumbers the Jugoslav three to one. The Jugoslav navy of 12 destroyers and torpedo boats and one, pre-War German cruiser would be a puny opponent for the modern, potent Battle Fleet of Italy. Yet last week in a score of Jugoslav cities and towns student hotheads, marched, demonstrated, rioted, skirmished with the police, and shouted: "Down with Mussolini!" "Long live King Alexander [of Jugoslavia]!" "Death to Fascismo!"; and "Down with the Treaty of Nettuno...