Word: prior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...surprise air attack on Hawaii. This fact calls for a formal investigation which will be initiated immediately by the President....We are all entitled to know it if: a) there was any error of judgment which contributed to the surprise, b) if there was any dereliction of duty prior to the attack...
...Czecho-Slovakia had "no Jewish problem . . . prior to Munich." Afterwards the Nazis "Aryanized" an estimated $1,000,000,000 worth of Jewish property...
What Thomas will say Sunday is a matter of conjecture, since he was a noted isolationist prior to the Japanese attack, and has made no public statement since the declaration...
Later Ambassador Litvinoff cooled somewhat and flew off in the Russian war plane that had brought him from Samara. The British Government was all apology. London reports said that prior to the incident Ambassador Litvinoff had refused passage in a special R.A.F. plane, declaring that the seats were not suitable, and that the Russian Embassy at Teheran had been informed that the transport plane was full. One London rumor, conflicting with the Teheran dispatches, claimed that the plane was already in the air when the Ambassador arrived at the airport...
...McNicol is chosen it will be the fourth year in a row that a backfield man has gotten the honor. Prior to Fran Lee, Joe Gardella and Torby Macdonald held the captaincy...