Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...State of California which says, "It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to dock the tail of any horse within the State of California, or to procure the same to be done or to import or bring into this State, any docked horse, etc." This was passed prior...
Good evening, my friends. Millions of U. S. citizens edged closer to their radios last Sunday as they heard this familiar greeting from the President of the U. S. For the second time Franklin Roosevelt was "reporting" to the country from the White House. Eight weeks prior when "the country was dying by inches" his first broadcast on the banking crisis had been a historic success. His second attempt to clear and steer the public mind on issues of state produced a popular reaction no less favorable. President Roosevelt's speech, simple and sympathetic, was more than a review...
...without protest or quibble, because the U. S. has supported Italy's disarmament proposals at Geneva, because the two countries have long seen eye to eye on most international issues, President Roosevelt and Minister Jung got on famously. President Roosevelt's principal objective prior to the June 12 opening of the conference in London is an all-round tariff truce so that all nations will start from the present scratch. Minister Jung gladly embraced this proposal. The Italian envoy argued that military disarmament must go hand in hand with economic disarmament. To this President Roosevelt heartily assented. They...
...There last week a silver bubble floated in the sky. small enough to be an egg of the mammoth Macon, yet bigger than any nonrigid airship heretofore built in the U. S. The bubble was the TC-13, just built by Goodyear for the Army, and being test-flown prior to her maiden flight to her station at Langley Field. Va. The TC-13 is 200 ft. long. Beneath her belly she carries a 40-ft. control car equipped with four folding bunks, and a galley containing an electric stove and electric coffee urn. A crew of six could...
...summer prior, Mrs. Ilsley had had a young Negro chauffeur named George Crawford. For receiving stolen goods Crawford had served five years on a Virginia chain gang. About Middleburg he had been arrested for minor thefts but always released for lack of evidence. When some liquor disappeared from the Ilsley house, Mrs. Ilsley discharged...