Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bond maturity and a foreclosure was ordered. Under the auctioneer's hammer, wielded by ubiquitous Joseph Paul Day, went the 34-story Benenson office building at No. 165 Broadway, two adjacent parcels. The total winning bids were $23,775,779 or only $1,815,000 more than existing prior liens...
Several years ago Harvard inaugurated the plan of suspending classes for two and a half weeks prior to the final examinations in each term, in order to allow students freedom for review and collateral reading in their courses. At that time much skepticism was, expressed by outsiders on the extent to which such a carte blanche could be given to the traditionally irresponsible undergraduate without danger of abuse. However, judging from the continuance of these "reading periods," as shown by the Harvard Catalogue, the plan has proved a success...
Died. Dr. Carl Joachim Stimming, 55, general director of North German Lloyd; of an embolism after a fall in which he suffered concussion of the brain and kidney injuries; in Hamburg. Prior to the World War Dr. Stimming was employed by the Imperial Naval Office at Kiel and in the Naval Ministry. Member of the Norddeutscher Lloyd board at the end of the War, he saw the fleet reduced to a handful of small, obsolete ships. For Dr. Slimming, who succeeded Philip Heineken as director in 1921, was the colossal task of rebuilding the line. In 1927 he succeeded...
...away the biggest maker of tin-plate and tin cans in France is J. J. Car-naud & Forges des Basse-Indre. Last week Continental Can Co. Inc. announced that it had granted this company its patents on canning and canning machinery, will receive royalties in future. Prior to the arrangement, Continental disposed of its stock interest in Compagnie Franco-Con-tinentale de Boites Metalliques, acquired last year. In England, Continental has a minority interest in Metal Box Co., Ltd. Continental's bigger rival, American Can Co., has a substantial interest in British Can Co. Ltd., maker...
Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor Emeritus of Rhetoric and Oratory and nationally famous for his popular anthology, "The Copeland Reader," has always made a practice of reading several selections aloud on an evening prior to the Christmas vacation at the Union. Last year he read several poems, and Dickens' "Christmas Carol...