Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veteran whose disability presumptively could be traced to the war, in 1890 for disabled veterans whose ailments had nothing to do with the war. Final step was in 1907, when pensions were secured for every veteran regardless of his health or wealth, for widows who had married their veterans prior to June 27, 1905 and for their children. In 1935, 70 years after Appomattox, annual Civil War pensions cost the U. S. $63,500,000. Total cost to date...
...national defense. Also tucked away in the list of resolutions to be presented to Congress next session was one demanding,"that in no event shall the widows and orphans of World War veterans be without Government protection." A "widow" was defined as one who had married a War veteran prior to July 3, 1931, or married him after that date and lived with him for three years preceding his death...
...adding apologetically, "You probably know every single fact in this advertisement." Most people indeed did. A box headed ''You are a stockholder in the United States. Inc." related that the country had produced three times as much wealth since the Revolution as the entire world had produced prior to 1776; that the U. S. worker's share of the national in come had risen from 38? in 1850 to 65? in 1929; that there were 44,000,000 savings accounts in the U. S. even in Depression. These and other facts, read the advertisement, reached "right down...
Irked when a whiskey bottle sailed by his head, Bandleader Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who recently was floored by Dancer George White, cut short his band music, stepped out onto a Toronto dance floor, strode up to a dancer whom he suspected as the bottle-thrower, knocked him flat. Greatly upset was Bandleader Vallee to discover later he had smacked the wrong man, Moffet Dunlap, scion of a wealthy Toronto family. To the Dunlap estate he hastily sped, apologized. Mumbled he: "I didn't hit him very hard. I greatly regret the whole affair...
...powerful than the French for the first time since 1914. Amid the yelps of every Paris paper appeared such cold, professional judgments as this from General Auguste Edouard Hirschauer: "It is my opinion that bringing the conscription period up to two years enables Germany to begin a war without prior mobilization...