Word: previously
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lounged on cushions of matched snakeskin M. le Senateur Caillaux could not know that he was near to losing another of his "lives"-this time physically. Most of his previous "deaths" have been political: One, when he failed as Prime Minister (1911-13) to create a Franco-German commercial entente, and was denounced by Frenchmen as a traitor; Two, when scandals touching his private life were exposed by Editor Calmette of Le Figaro who was therefore shot dead by Mme. Caillaux; Three, when M. Caillaux was sentenced for High Treason (1920) because he was thought to have intrigued...
...value (when most of the endowments were set up), the Museum lacked enough money to pay for its multifold activities. This year's deficit is $106.,00. To make it up President Osborn asked the trustees to contribute their own cash, as they had done for previous deficiencies...
...John Daniel Hertz was ready to make the taxicab an industry and to upset all previous methods. He had engineers design a small, tough cab. of low upkeep cost. He manufactured dozens, hundreds of them. He painted them an eye-arresting yellow-orange. He announced rates that knocked the public's eye out- 30? for the first mile, and no charge for the "dead haul'' (let a driver go five miles to get a 30? passenger if necessary). The Yellow cabs were shined up every day. Dentists and doctors took care of the drivers. Knowing well...
...Practically, Wall Street estimated that previous to the Rockefeller letter, only 17% of Standard Oil of Indiana stock was in Rockefeller hands, while Colonel Stewart and allies controlled...
...Previous doings of Mr. Norris...