Word: pre
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note was received in anger by Germany. President Hindenburg pre- sided over a Cabinet council, but the probable action of the Government was not divulged. Spokesmen in the Wilhelmstrasse said that the note was dictated through fear of German trade with the U. S. and that, if the property ordered destroyed by the Allies, which they valued at $25,000,000, is destroyed, it will be impossible for Germany, suffering such a loss, to live up to the Experts' Plan...
...made to the Commissior; in eleven years. It took action ir about 1,000 of these cases. Of late, Congress has got more and more in the habit of asking the Commission to make investigations. Recently, President Coolidge appointed W. E. Humphrey, onetime (1903-17) Congressman from Washington, his pre-Convention campaign manager in the West, to the Commission. Then things began to happen-for the first time the conservatives were in control. Two overt acts...
Crimson traditional features of fifty years, and never has the CRIMSON failed to win 23 to 2. Although this year there will be no informal bar at third base as in pre-Volstead days, there is no reason to believe that the lampoon will be able to stand up and better against the CRIMSON attack...
Regarding employment, he pointed out that Hungary, one-third its pre-War size, had the same number of Government employes as before the War. ''However," he continued, "steps have been taken gradually to diminish the number of Government employes without wholesale discharges, because that would have caused great confus:on and destitution...
...Government airdrome, saw the completion of a seaplane with a 500-h.p. motor capable, it is said, of flying for 34 hours, and thus fitted for the Paris-New York flight. Two war veterans will fly it: Francis Coli and Paul Tarascon. The latter acquired a wooden leg in pre-War flying and later shot down eleven German planes in battle...