Word: prior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prior to initiating any selective buying campaign BAG is examining the employment policies of Boston firms which are located in Negro districts and sell to Negro customers. It is primarily concerned with food companies which operate on a low profit margin and depend on regular customers. A boycott would be most effective against such firms...
Interviewed by telephone last night. Mrs. Wheeler said she was "delighted to be back with the City Council." She had served two terms prior to her defeat in the 1961 election...
...Prior to the Democratic convention of 1960, Mrs. Roosevelt opposed Kennedy's bid for the Democratic nomination. But she actively supported his presidential candidacy and served Kennedy in a number of posts--among them on a commission to advance the status of women in employment and in government...
...months prior to the blockade, very few newspapers discussed anything that was going on inside Cuba, either good or bad. No one, for example, has even a rough idea of how many schools Castro has built in the last year; or alternatively of the extent of his secret police apparatus. There is nowhere one can go to find out. This lack of information about Cuba has constantly made United States policies toward that country difficult to judge; and during the past week, combined with the suddenness of information about the Soviet military build-up, it rendered public opinion utterly irrelevant...
Fabled Rages. Living alumni still shiver at the memory of lean, eagle-beaked Alfred E. Stearns, the devout, athletic zealot who ruled Andover for 30 years prior to 1933. Stearns hired the fabled Latinist Georgie Hinman, who jabbed penknives into his wooden leg, chewed pencils in half, caromed erasers off thick skulls, and made students flush bad translations down the toilets. Yet it was also Stearns who steered Andover toward opulence. In 1908 he took over the seminary's buildings when that institution fell on bad times and slunk off to Harvard. He raised $1,000,000 for teachers...