Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Prior to a banquet, Mr. Robert M. Belts, a well-known Oregon engineer, came to me and asked me if 1 would re-introduce him to the Prince, for whom he had worked in Alaska, and of course I agreed. As we sat down, Caetani was on my right and on my left was the Mayor of Spokane. Addressing the Ambassador, I said: ''Your Excellency, permit me to introduce Mr. Blank, the Mayor of the city," to which of course Caetani made a gracious but reserved response. Mr. Blank, greatly embarrassed, whispered in my left...
...survey further criticizes the Civil Service Commission on the ground that prior experience is not as important as the Commission believes and that an examination of the character of the applicants is more important than the arrest records and answers to the practical questions which are learned from the Civil Service Commission, however, would review the methods of examination and guard against favoritism and political influence, while the police department itself would test the intelligence, temperament, character and physical fitness of the applicants...
...years ago only Montana had an old-age pension law. Only four States had such laws prior to 1929. The New Deal and Depression gave the first real impetus to the movement; ten States and the Territory of Hawaii passed such laws in 1933. This winter President Roosevelt will move in Congress to nationalize the old-age pension idea, spread it over...
...down for the "short session" prior to Nov. 20 at which time George V will open Parliament's new year with his Speech from the Throne. ¶ Were jolted by nation-wide municipal election returns ominous for the National Government...
...however, by agreement with the Dean of the Faculty and the instructor in charge of the course the number of cuts has recently been limited to five per term. This ostensibly has been effected due to the lack of interest of students in attending the lectures. During the years prior to the institution of this rule the attendance had become annoyingly small. With characteristic shortsightedness the feeling has been that the only way to secure an adequate audience was the enforcement of attendance by the check method, allowing only a certain number of absences. In face of the growing tendency...