Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policy ring, run by two West Indian Negroes named Pompeii and Ison. Bankers, slip girls, runners, collectors were carted to the Inn for examination in a nightlong stream. By morning 70 of them, including Ison but not Pompeii, were in hand, plus the ring's "take" for the previous...
...experienced Moscow diplomatic corps and foreign press, knew last week that the charges which Prosecutor Vishinsky was going to make in an hour-long lecture would immediately afterward be repeated by the prisoners as each confessed to what he had been accused of with only trifling discrepancies. As in previous Moscow trials it was again the case that, since each charge was answered by confession, there was little or no introducing of evidence to prove the charges, except insofar as one prisoner's confession tended to corroborate another's. The chief prisoners, as usual, said they preferred...
...fire. Strike Leader Martin had got the sit-downers to evacuate two General Motors plants in Detroit and one at Anderson, Ind. Before starting to Flint to evacuate the two remaining plants, Mr. Martin became outraged. He made a speech to a union rally in Detroit not only repeating previous charges that Mr. Boysen was a too of General Motors but denouncing the Flint Alliance as a collection of house wives and members of the Black Legion Then he went to Flint, harangued a meeting and it was voted not to evacuate the Flint plants because General Motors had "double...
There are some 130,000 seamen in the U. S. merchant marine. Until this year these men have had to pass no examinations in seamanship to get jobs. They merely submitted discharge papers from previous voyages. These papers were terse in the extreme, had no positive identification, were often sold by poverty-stricken sailors. In New York's Bowery or Boston's Scollay Square any landlubber could buy papers saying he was an accomplished Able Seaman. Many authorities blamed this situation in part for the Morro Castle disaster. Last June, Congress passed the Copeland Sea Safety Bill, which...
...lives rightly should be 140. . . . There are many Mahatmas living in the high Himalayas of over 200." Says Yeats-Brown: "They have no birth certificates, unfortunately." In seven instances of alleged reincarnation which he discovered, the children gave circumstantial evidence to prove that they remembered a previous life on earth. Most complicated case was that of a five-year-old who spoke one day to his mother "in great perplexity, saying that he was her husband, and that his grandfather his father, and his grandmother his mother." One boy said he had been a soldier who had died...