Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep; nor did 80 other girls. For two days prior "Beaverbrook," a stately brick building that contained classrooms, offices, dining room, sleeping quarters, had been gutted by a brisk, suspiciously sudden fire. Most of Miss Walker's girls had to be put up that night at an inn, a country club, in homes in Simsbury and Farmington...
...bill is that it will form a precedent. This is such an easy remedy that it may be used too frequently instead of methods that will cure fundamental economic diseases. Inflation, of course, cannot purge the economic system of inefficient industries, overproduction in certain fields, and similar faults existing prior...
...veterans] to appreciate that not only does their welfare but also the welfare of every American citizen depend upon the maintenance of the credit of their Government and that every citizen in every walk of life is being called upon to share in this." ¶ Three days prior President Roosevelt issued orders clipping 15% from the pay of every Federal employe, civil and military. Excuse: Living costs have dropped 21.7% since 1928. Estimated savings...
...indictments against his clients be quashed on the grounds that, by banning Negroes from the Jackson County jury roll, the State of Alabama had denied the defendants their constitutional rights at the original trial. Attorney General Thomas E. Knight, whose father wrote the Alabama Supreme Court decision sustaining the prior verdict, put the burden of proof on the defense. What Counsel Leibowitz had to prove, every Southerner knows to be true: Negroes simply are not allowed on juries in Alabama. After two days of bickering, Judge James E. Horton, a Lincolnesque figure in the Circuit Court for 25 years, suddenly...
Britons learned last week how far gone was sick British shipping when famed old Cunard Steamship Co., Ltd. reported a $3,000,000 net loss for 1932, a $2,000,000 drop in North Atlantic traffic. Four days prior. Chancellor of the Exchequer Neville Chamberlain had prescribed a cure in the House of Commons: an "arrangement" between Cunard & White Star. He set it as a condition to government subsidies to help Cunard finish its giant ship No. 534, now an idle skeleton in a Scotch shipyard. Everybody knew White Star was suffering as badly as Cunard from...