Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...richest, smoothest, quickest of all Spenders & Lenders is, of course, the Works Progress Administration. Having learned in previous years that announcement of the amounts of money he spends is a local publicity boomerang, Harry Hopkins talked of his plans in terms of men and jobs, not dollars. WPA's assignment is to take up unemployment slack rapidly at first, then more slowly as PWA's projects get going, then at full capacity when winter comes and heavy construction slows down. Last week WPA added 60,000 workers to its rolls, two-thirds of them in the Midwest...
...Catholic authorities deny that such a ceremony, if any in fact was performed, could be valid because no action has been taken by the Sacred Roman Rota to dissolve the Countess' previous marriage...
...sanctified by old familiar precedent. Thus sanctified is The Shopworn Angel-first told by Dana Burnet in the Saturday Evening Post for Sept. 14, 1918, later, as a picture in 1929. Faith such as Hollywood has always shown in such stories seldom goes unrewarded. As it emerges from its previous tellings, The Shopworn Angel is still a tear jerker in the grand manner-simple, senile and heroically sentimental...
Although prices last week did not keep up the pace of the previous week's uprush, they showed handsome gains. It was even proposed that SEC ease its rules against short selling to keep prices from scoring too many home runs. At week's end, Dow-Jones averages showed new 1938 highs for industrials, up seven points from the week before to 138.53, and for utilities up two points to 22.27; rails, up two points to 27.57, were higher than they have been for four months...
When the semi-annual report was issued, it supported the board chairman's optimism. In the most successful six months of its history, Bank of America shattered a flock of previous records: capital funds were up $4,963,000 to $112,231,000; deposits totaled $1,357,778,000, $77,058,000 increase over June 30, 1937; total resources were $1,498,527,000, compared with 1938's $1,415,559,000. Half-year earnings of $12,321,000 beat last year's first six months...