Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...considers "not only a genius in his own art, but one of the most extraordinary creative geniuses that all music has over known", lay on the cot of Metropolitan Theatre star dressing room trying to cool down from the heat he had delivered in the stage show of the previous hour...
...heels of a message urging a long-range program to abate the evils of farm tenancy, President Roosevelt sent his crop insurance committee's report to Congress with a temperate letter of recommendation. This newest New Deal plan to make life richer and safer for farmers differed from previous ones in that it was not to be launched on an imperial scale. Its authors proposed to begin with the 1938 wheat crop only, wait on time and experience before extending it to other staples...
...professorship, Professor Tinker must deliver at least six public lectures on poetry during the year. The professorship was established in 1925 under a $200,000 gift by the late Charles Chauncey Stillman '98, and is an annual appointment to a man "of high distinction and international reputation." Previous holders of the chair have been Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot '10, Gilbert Murray, Lawrence Binyon, and others, the present holder is Johnny A. E. Roosval, professor of the History of Art at the University of Stockholm...
...previous appearance before the La Follette committee last summer, Pinkerton officials admitted that U. S. employers had paid the agency $1,750,000 for labor spy and strikebreaking services since 1933. Last week the committee produced figures to show that General Motors, biggest Pinkerton customer, had paid at least $419,850. Pinkerton services to G. M. had ended suddenly only the previous fortnight. Most of the G. M. jobs were the routine stuff of planting agents in labor unions to betray them. But one shocker revealed a new angle of U. S. labor espionage, cast a shadow not only...
...civil war began a "people's court" to crack down on any Spaniard who seemed to be more or less Monarchist or even middleclass. That an orgy of Spanish vengeance did not at once erupt in Málaga last week, as it has erupted after almost every previous White victory in Spain's civil war, seemed to be due to the fact that decisive in taking Málaga fortnight ago were Italian forces. These strangers not only lacked the local enthusiasm for Spanish fratricide but quietly did all they could to restrain the acts of General...