Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold Saturday in November 1926 two football teams met in the Stadium to play a game which made athletic history. Throughout that fall and for many seasons previous relations between those teams had been strained by repeated accusations and marks of ill-will. For in the two successive years prior to 1926 one of those teams had been beaten by the other by large scores, a fact which resulted at first in the outgrowth of much idle talk and friendly criticism involving the type of playing which the victor had used. As the months were on that informal humor became...
Although it is a bit early to make predictions as to the starting lineup which will answer the official whistle at 2 o'clock on Saturday, a probable choice began to shape up. In view of the changes which were made just prior to the Dartmouth game a week ago, anyone's guess is as good as another's when it comes to lining up the Crimson eleven...
...Republican Frank Finley Merriam. A small-bore, Iowa-born politician who was elected Lieutenant Governor in 1930, Frank Merriam of Long Beach became Acting Governor when "Sunny Jim" Rolph died last June. The San Francisco general strike and a shrewd stratagem won him his nomination for the coming election. Prior to the strike, onetime Governor Clement Calhoun Young had been assured Republican support by no less a faction than Herbert Hoover & friends. When big industrialists began to beseech Acting Governor Merriam to send troops into San Francisco, he replied that it would ruin him politically. One by one the potent...
...meeting of the year in the Lowell House Tower Room at 7.30 o'clock Monday night. Interested by the inauguration of a new system of procedure in meetings, the attendance at the gathering exceeded that of all previous ones. Formerly questions up for debate were handled in small committees prior to the general meeting of the club. Putting the new order into practice, the best part of an hour was spent in spirited discussion about a new play which the club is hopeful of obtaining for production. In arrangements are satisfactory, the name of the play will be announced...
...labor was that he offered the latter a constructive program: the Corporative State Whether or no this State is but another form of capitalistic domination, it has succeeded to a remarkable extent in putting an end to such forms of economic waste as the strike, the lookout, sabotage etc. Prior to Mussolini's accession, Italy was so torn with violent industrial disturbances that communism was believed by many to be inevitable. But in his particular mode of Fascism, Mussolini prevented the inevitable. The voice of American labor seems, for the moment at least, to be stilled. But inasmuch...