Word: prior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...those disastrous years prior to September 1939, you will recall, one notable voice was never heard from Broadcasting House; a voice which, in 1940 when it was almost too late, was able to summon up endurance and courage . . . How wonderful it would have been if this voice. Sir Winston Churchill's, had been heard on the air warning of the wrath to come . . . The Corporation, however, would not have it [because of Britain's] appeasement policy ... I would myself cheerfully have put up with hours of Mr. J. Fred Muggs for such a deliverance as Sir Winston Churchill...
...quote the Confederate General Forrest as saying he would not have gone to war if he "hadn't thought he was fighting to keep his niggers and other folks' niggers." For several years prior to General Forrest's death in 1879, I was his neighbor on Union Street in Memphis, and on several occasions I heard him say slavery was not the sole, or even the main, cause of the War Between the States. Less than 10% of the people of the South owned even one slave...
...Rojas Pinilla closed El Siglo for a day. Censorship was also strict, though seemingly impartial, at other papers. Rojas has promised to return a measure of press freedom, after working out a set of "newspapermen's commandments." This may be less onerous than Gómez' capricious prior censorship, because it will put the rules down in black & white, but it will still be censorship...
...Prior Commitment. In East Chicago, Ind., officials got an explanation from James R. Duffy, 42, who said he had been unable to appear in court to answer a drunken-driving charge because he had been jailed in nearby Valparaiso, on a drunken-driving charge...
...plan proposed by the Student Legislature would have done away with the prior Committee investigation of a speaker. Instead, the sponsoring student group would be held responsible for the maintenance of the by-law. Infractions would be judged by a Joint Judiciary group after the meeting...