Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been thankfully accepting from the American Red Cross sums which now total $370,000. Of this $100,000 was appropriated by the American Red Cross from its general fund before the Roosevelt appeal, and another $100,000 was added from the same source early this month. Private donations prior to the appeal amounted to about $50,000. Chairman Davis keeps hearing from U. S. friends of China that, whereas Japan got $10,000,000 after her earthquake, the American Red Cross in the last three decades has sent only about $3,000,000 to succor Chinese flood and famine victims...
Felix Frankfurter '06, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, criticized the Supreme Court for its resistance to trade unionism prior to the Roosevelt administration, in the second of his series of lectures on "The Court and Mr. Justice Holmes" in New Lecture Hall Monday night...
Lamentably, Mr. Dohr has not only committed an error of emphasis, but one of accounting. At the end of 1936 the net worth of Johns-Manville was $35,849,663. The preferred stock has prior claim to $9,000,000 of this, leaving $26,849,663 for the common. Mr. Dohr divides this figure by the 850,000 shares now outstanding and gets a book value of $31 a share. He forgets that the common was sold for $100 a share. As the capitalization increased to 850,000 shares, assets increased by $10,000,000. Mr. Dohr should have divided...
...Louis, in defense of his world's heavyweight title; from Harry Thomas; by a knockout. Prior to his fight with Max Schmeling last December, Thomas had knocked out 44 of his 56 opponents, had himself never been knocked out. Significance of last week's fight, which only 10,468 Chicagoans paid to see because any April fool could foretell its outcome; Schmeling had made Thomas dizzy (technical knockout) in eight rounds; Louis made him dizzier (bona fide knockout) in five; and Louis meets Schmeling for the championship in June...
...been British policy from time immemorial, under Conservative, Liberal and Labor regimes, to avoid whenever possible the giving of a prior pledge which in certain circumstances would bring armed forces of the Empire automatically into play. While giving the House of Commons to understand last week that "in the case of France and Belgium" any German aggression will bring automatic British resistance to the aggressors, Neville Chamberlain was able to show that not even Anthony Eden advocated such an automatic arrangement in the case of Czechoslovakia...