Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tune lilted all last week through the heads of the 500-odd members of the U, S. Congress: Home, Sweet Home. Senator LaFollette, who had spent the previous weekend yachting with the President, broadcast to the press his view that Congress should stay in session until a ''comprehensive legislative schedule" had been enacted. He said that he spoke only for himself, which in one sense was true since he is the only member of the Progressive Party in the Senate, but Senator Barkley, the new majority leader, who had also been on the yachting party was promptly quizzed...
After the strike was called the hotels declared that previous offers were off. Week after week negotiations blew hot, then cold. Last month one hotel sued the City of San Francisco for damages, alleging insufficient police protection for continuation of operations. Last week on the strike's 87th day a settlement was finally arranged by which the front office clerks, about 75, were recognized, though on other points the strikers lost ground. Even after the settlement the strikers refused to return to work until the hotels signed contracts with twelve nonstriking unions such as barbers, electricians, musicians...
...that half a century of British dominance in Egypt, more or less disguised, has acted as the greatest graft-purge in Egyptian history. Standards of administration have been upped and the 14-year reign of the late King Fuad was marked by more material progress in Egypt than the previous 2,000 years. His Late Majesty, however. was a definitely strong Egyptian character, obliged though King Fuad was often to behave as an acceptable British puppet. Behind the scenes and at moments when British pressure was relaxed. Fuad I was always wangling this or that concession for Egypt from...
...months. Chicago's Inland Steel, the sixth and least enthusiastic member of "Little Steel," reported a good gain for the half ($8,187,000 as against $5,232,000) but its June quarter showing was nearly $2,000,000 below the $5,000,000 earned in the previous quarter...
...company had no funded debt, and drastic write-downs on machinery and equipment made its overheac the lowest in the industry. Brightened by Mr. Bradley's analysis, the directors elected him to succeed President Wallace Zwiener, who died a year ago. The company then dropped a previous proposal to issue some $570,000 worth of stock, adopted a more ambitious plan. Approved by Hupp stockholders last April this provided for a reduction in par value of the outstanding common stock from $10 to $1 a share, exchange of stock on a one for two basis, sale...