Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prior to election, is often the most effective electioneering speech of the Prime Minister...
...laws, hastily decreed by Premier Laval as his Contribution to PATIENCE a few days earlier, deprive Frenchmen of the right to carry firearms without a permit and aim, somewhat feebly, to end the recent series of "surprise Fascist mobilizations" by making prior notice and police consent necessary for public assemblies. Since the Fascists can easily find private property on which to meet and a hay-wagon from which Leader de La Rocque likes to speak (see cut, p. 26), Paris' Fascist Echo de Paris could clarion last week: "The mountain has labored and brought forth a mouse- the decree...
Neither man could be classed as a veteran, though Watson, prior to his injury, was rated very high in the tackle squad and played in the early games. Downes will be playing in his first Varsity competition...
...rare cases where findings are published but it also affected a goodly number of investors who were not directly party to the dispute. The controversy was between two groups of New York Stock Exchange firms, one of which had sold, the other bought, Alleghany Corp. prior preferred stock "when, as and if issued...
Though the stock was not actually issued until a year later, trading began in 1934 after the Van Sweringen Brothers proposed to escape an interest default by swapping this prior preferred for the coupons on some Alleghany bonds. To put over the plan the Van Sweringens had to resort to the courts where under Section 77B of the Bankruptcy Act a two-thirds majority can coerce a stubborn minority. Meantime the Alleghany "when issued" stock dropped from $30 per share...