Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days prior to the anniversary celebration, King Fuad's son, solemn Crown Prince Farouk, 15, said good-by to his four small sisters, left the royal palace at Alexandria to be trained as a British army cadet at Woolwich. Few schoolboys ever had a more impressive sendoff. At Ras-et-Tin Palace, British High Commissioner Sir Miles W. Lampson was on hand for a farewell handshake, a bit of fatherly advice. In a glittering barouche behind an escort of Egyptian lancers the dark-skinned youngster drove through the streets of Alexandria to the quayside where he boarded...
Hopping mad was Publisher James Hammond of the Memphis Commercial Appeal, whose prior bid of $200,000 for the Tennessean bonds had been rejected for no given reason. "It is plain," snapped Publisher Hammond, "that an agency of government has violated our national guarantee of a free press, and the revelation is shocking. We have had a situation which is a threat of Fascism...
Basic cause of Virginia-Carolina dissension is the corporation's stock setup. There are three classes of stock-first, a Prior Preference stock, which pays a 7% cumulative dividend; then a Participating Preferred, which pays a 6% cumulative dividend; and finally a common stock, which has never paid any dividends since the present company was organized in 1926. The company is $16.50 per share in arrears on the Prior Preference, $43 per share behind on the Participating...
...those which preceded Japan's invasion of Manchuria and setting up of the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. Today the Nanking Government is already so pliant toward Japan that further acquiescence is well nigh impossible if the Government is to remain in any sense Chinese. Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former Chinese Governor of Chahar, General Sung Cheh-yuan, who was cashiered...
Delving profoundly into the depths of psychological analysis Philip Barry has constructed an absorbing and highly intelligent problem drama, "Bright Star" which is now enjoying a short Boston run at the Plymouth prior to Tuesday's New York opening. Although quite completely absorbed in the problem which he has created Mr. Barry has studded his work with a steady dialogue flow of straight forward, crisp and frequently midriff-striking lines. The problem none the less, is the thing...