Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they had all been closed by his decree, the President had done some extraordinary things. Now in A. B. C. fashion he wanted to explain his actions to his countrymen and persuade them, by simple word and confident voice, not to repeat their own extraordinary behavior of the week prior when all at once they attempted to convert their bank deposits into currency, precipitating crisis...
Events of recent weeks testify to the earth faults-earthquakes in Japan and Cuba a fortnight ago, in Chile the prior week, in Alaska concurrently. Argentina and Germany, apparently thrown off bal ance, also quaked. Mt. Vesuvius in Italy, Mt. Krakatoa in the East Indies, seethe...
...most prominent actors in France, and has appeared recently in many stage successes. The production, which has had a long stage run in France, contains a typically French theme, and deals with the romantic escapades of a country youth who ascends the ladder of fame as a fashionable hairdresser. Prior to the main picture, a short curtain raiser will be presented...
...Havana five days prior. Senator Walsh had married Senora Mina Perez Chaumont de Truffin, a wealthy Cuban widow (TIME, March 6). For all his 73 years and a stiff back the grim, grey Montanan was feeling fine & fit for a short honeymoon. From Havana he flew with his plump bride, 20 years his junior, to Miami where he received official notification of his appointment to the Roosevelt Cabinet. He called at the hospital where Chicago's Mayor Cermak lay close to death. Going on to Daytona Beach Senator Walsh, an honest Dry, told newshawks that under him the Department...
Yale last week stood forth on the busy field of subatomic exploration with a new conception of the neutron. The week prior, Cambridge had brought into the field evidence of "positrons" (positive electrons...