Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Week previous to this pronouncement Kentuckian Alben Barkley had settled down to the bitterest of the many unpleasant tasks that he has had since he succeeded the late Joseph Taylor Robinson as Majority Leader of the Senate. Leader Barkley was paying for a serious mistake. Last August in the closing days of Congress, when every minute of the Senate's time was plotted out, he fell asleep at the switch. Senator King who was supposed to rise at a certain moment to present the District of Columbia Airport Bill, missed his cue and before Senator Barkley woke New York...
Nevertheless, Chautemps continued trying to set up a Cabinet which would "group a maximum of goodwill around the essential principles approved by the electors." After pondering this subtle formula, at length, the Socialists in an all-night session of their National Council at first voted- in effect reversing their previous stand- to participate in any Government, even one lacking Communists, committed to a Popular Front program. Later the Socialists changed their minds, promised Chautemps only their votes in the Chamber of Deputies. Despite the tenuousness of this support, he made it this week the basis of a projected all-Radical...
...trial runs. To show them to other U. S. roads the designers plan to install two Ford V-8 engines to enable the coaches to cruise about the country under their own power. Delighted with the steadiness of the coaches during tests at 50 m.p.h., Sponsor Hill-whose previous railroad experience consists of three weeks in the Great Northern shops at St. Paul during childhood-pronounced his cars "jounce-less...
...dropped 70 employes in November, a few weeks before General Motors' discontinued its Sunday Symphony, Chevrolet's Romantic Rhythms (CBS) and Pontiac's Varsity Show. But NBC's 1937 take for radio time turned out to be $125,000,000, an 18% increase over the previous year. Thirty-six new stations were licensed during the year. As further evidence of good health, last week the three big networks contracted for 1,000 additional musicians...
...above), ice hockey is one of the lowest-scoring games there is. When the Montreal Maroons beat the Montreal Canadiens last week 11-to-7, hockey experts rustled back through the record books, discovered that the total score of 18 points was the major league's highest. Previous high...