Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...word. He has repeatedly pledged himself to retire in 1940 when his six-year term expires, and he has so strictly enforced the Constitution's one-term provision that no one has been allowed to run for Congress who has held any major Government office within a year prior to election...
...trooper also drank some. All three reported themselves stricken with intestinal cramps and chills which Chandler doctors diagnosed as "cyanotic." The Governor stayed in bed for a week. The Governor's physicians insisted he had been almost fatally poisoned. The Governor's guards declared there had been prior poisoning attempts...
Amid a blizzard of protesting telegrams from anti-Earle Pennsylvanians, through House and Senate last week were quickly steamrollered four Earle bills: 1) reserving to the House prior right to investigate State officers for impeachable offenses; 2) enabling the Attorney General to supersede any local prosecutor in any such trial in the courts; 3) suspending the Dauphin County Grand Jury's investigation; 4) creating a House committee to investigate Mr. Earle & friends, with power to jail reluctant witnesses...
Busiest of all was the handsome, dark-haired prior of a Servite community in Chicago, Rev. James R. Keane. Two winters ago, in Our Lady of Sorrows Church in Chicago, Father Keane inaugurated a perpetual novena in honor of Our Sorrowful Mother, with special Stations of the Cross and prayers of his own compilation. Last winter Father Keane's novena began getting publicity when 16,500 people attended it every Friday, each making nine devotions in succession to the Virgin, in hope of spiritual or material reward (TIME, Dec. 27). By last week, 50,000 Catholics were thronging...
...that ripples might top previous crests of 121 for the industrials, 23.5 for the rails, thus show the current wave to be coming in. This week's Rhea letter said that every upward zig-zag step, if confirmed by both averages, would be bullish, but a downward zigzag prior to penetration of 121 and 23.5 would mean danger...