Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prior to this catastrophe, Bert Wheeler bet his watch with a guy that Lee Dixon, premier lover of the U. S. fleet, could garner a garter from Miss Martin, premiere iceberg of the Republic of Panama. In the meantime, Miss Martin has fallen for her hero, and he for her, but when she learns of the wager, she calls the affair off until the final curtain...
...Adolf Hitler suddenly went insane, thus upsetting calculations based on prior readings of his mind...
...chairman has long been associated with the study of American history and culture. Before becoming director of the Harvard Press in 1936. Malone was editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, and prior to that, professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has also been a member of the faculty and Sterling Fellow at Yale, from which he holds three degrees...
...time Swindler Paul Reynard (Basil Rathbone) muffs that million-pound loan in London, his fussy French creditors threaten him with jail. Without batting a basilisk eye or ruffling a hair over his sinister profile, Swindler Paul explains to them that he forged the securities they hold for his prior loans; if they do not lend him 100,000,000 francs more, he will ruin them. This bit of blackmail lands Paul in Devil's Island. To Rio de Janeiro promptly dash Paul's dog-faithful bodyguard Dirk (rough-and-humble Victor McLaglen) to tend bar, Paul...
...Tamotsu Nishida, manager of Sumitomo Bank, Ltd., declared: "Oh, there must be some mistake. We are only a foreign branch for the home office at Osaka. . . . We don't accept deposits." In Washington, SEC admitted having received the British information on A. Hitler & Co.'s foreign holdings prior to its publication, having used it in checking the registration of a proposed German bond issue (TIME, Aug. 14), now withdrawn. Washington credited A. Hitler, too, with having money abroad: about $1,000,000, mostly from royalties on Mem Kampf...