Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Prior to 1928, the greatest popular vote polled by a U.S. Presidential candidate was Harding's 16,152,200 in 1920. Next highest was Coolidge's 15,725,016 in 1924. The 1928 results have not yet been officially rechecked and published. The latest count compiled by Current History shows Hoover 21,409,215, Smith 15,042,366. When a final count of the 1928 popular vote is available, TIME will print it, State by State...
...early book bindings, printed books, and images, most of them of local make, but some also of high artistic value and which had been made at the capital or in some great centers. The prints are the earliest prints in existence and the paintings almost the only Chinese paintings prior to the eleventh century and about the date of which there cannot be any doubt
...increase of 36 millions deemed necessary for the War Department will be partially offset by cutting down the -Navy Department's allotment by 16 millions. President Coolidge pointed out that the cost of national defense has increased about 100 millions since 1926 but explained that "in these prior years the defense establishments have had the use of surplus left over from the war." The President declared himself satisfied that money for the Army and Navy air services was well spent. Besides Army & Navy flying, the U. S. air program is carried forward by the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics...
Around Mexico's great Federation of Labor, the C. R. O. M., there was generated, last week, a menacing crisis. Without prior hint of trouble the Congress of the Crom met and passed two fateful resolutions. The first gave notice to Mexico's new President, Señor Emilio Fortes Gil, that provincial officials are "persecuting" members of the Crom, and asked that these persecutions be stopped. The second resolution requested President Fortes Gil to padlock the Teatro Lirico in Mexico City, where a gross buffoon has been impersonating and holding up to ridicule, night after night...
...chewers who will chew Wrigley's Doublemint gum in 1929 will realize that the use of the word "Doublemint" is costing the Wrigley company almost $2,000,000. Back in 1911 the L. P. Larson gum company, claiming prior rights to the word "Doublemint," sued Wrigley for its use of this brand name. After a -year battle, Wrigley Gum and Larson Gum have settled the quarrel by payment of $1,900,000 to the Larson company...