Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Federation of Labor. He started talking about the malpractices of private employment bureaus, but everybody stopped wiping their faces and listened when President McDonough became suddenly impassioned and declared: "The coming winter is going to be the worst in history. I am not a press agent for breweries, but prior to 1919-21 the brewing industry was the fifth largest in the country. If the incoming Congress will vote as they drink, they will legalize beer. I am talking from an economic viewpoint. If the law is revised there will be from...
...merely told the Admiralty the total amounts to be saved, the fleet heard last week that midshipmen and junior officers would scarcely be docked at all while ordinary seamen and the lower ratings were to receive a basic pay cut of 25%. Hardest hit were veterans who had enlisted prior to 1925, when an earlier reduction from Wartime pay went into effect with the understanding that sailors who had enlisted prior to that date would continue to draw pay at the original rate...
Since then he has been active as an engineer, shipbuilder, bacteriologist, airport operator, realtor. In Santa Barbara, where he owns Ovington Air Terminal, he flies his thirteenth plane. He is also an ardent, skilled yachtsman. He is president of the Early Birds, organization of pilots who won their wings prior...
...revamping his Smart Set to compete with Publisher Nast's civilized Vanity Fair and the bright New Yorker (TIME, June 16, 1930). Out of work at the time was bald, sociable, fortyish Arthur H. Samuels. He had written the first newspaper advertisement for The New Yorker five years prior, had urged Publisher Raoul H. Fleischmann to keep up the magazine during its dark early days. In 1928 he was made The New Yorker's associate editor and penny-watcher. Caught in a crossfire between Owner Fleischmann and Editor Harold Ross, he went to Europe. When he got back...
...loud, mechanically jovial martial air is the "Stein Song" of the University of Maine. It had become popular through the efforts of Hubert Prior ("Rudy") Vallee, who, born 30 years ago in Island Pond, Vermont, had grown up in Westbrook, Maine, gone to Yale University, become a crooner. The State of Maine has been hunting an official song. "How about the 'Stein Song'?," asked someone. Replied Chairman Daniel W. Hoegg of the State of Maine Publicity Bureau last week: "The 'Stein Song' may help the University of Maine, but it doesn't say a thing...