Word: prior
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three weeks ago, a racketeering young lady from Manhattan named Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon was taken for a ride in Van Cortlandt Park, was later found in the shrubbery, strangled (TIME, March 9). When it became known that five days prior she had gone to court with frameup charges against a New York City detective, her murder was regarded as a crowning outrage in the long series of revelations about the city's bench and police force. A storm of bitter indignation from New York's citizenry wiped the deprecatory smile from the face of the Tammany Tiger...
...confused with another pair of tattered old overalls which two days prior Arkansas' Senator Caraway had flourished in the Senate as an argument for further Drought relief...
...three weeks prior to Washington's Birthday, stocks churned higher on big volume. Bullish rumors flooded Wall Street. There were stories of big bears trapped; of big deals brewing. International Telephone & Telegraph gained 100% over its January low and there were tales that it will again attempt to buy Radio Corp.'s communication business. Auburn leaped from $101 through $210 and bulls said they heard that General Motors had agreed to use Auburn's free-wheeling patents. Once again the names of Mike Meehan and William Crapo Durant were heard where speculators gathered...
...exhibition of the works of classic and modern authors, manuscripts, and medieval illuminated music of extreme value is being held for a short while at the Dunster House Book Shop, at Boylston and South Streets prior to the removal of the collection to the house of a client on the North Shore. The shop has nearly finished the task of bringing together the required volumes, mostly complete sets of famous authors in beautiful hand-made bindings and with hand painted decorations. Several Harvard undergraduates have helped in the book-seeking and cataloguing...
...Andrew William Mellon was already a tycoon to be reckoned with. He was 45, lean and quiet. The Union Trust which he had founded eleven years prior had grown and become a mighty instrument in his skilled hands. He had an iron in many industrial fires already glowing, he had irons in other fires just kindling. Nine years had passed since he had bought into Aluminum Co. of America and the investment began to look promising. He held a lot of bonds in an oil company sponsored by that picturesque Pittsburgher, J. M. Guffey. Six years later those bonds were...