Word: priore
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...lost his life, and the other three were wounded in action. I arn afraid your article leaves the inference that La Guardia was elected to Congress solely because of having capitalized his War record, and the fact is that he left Congress to join the Army. Does not his prior election show that he did not need a War record to convince his district that he is the man whom they want to represent them? VICTOR HEINTZ
...reported that, just prior to the signing, Ambassador Kellogg offered, on behalf of the U. S., a reservation that the U. S. assume no responsibility for enforcing payments in case of default. The other countries objected, and the agreement was signed without reservations...
...Lines, for the last three years, the average number of passenger air miles per passenger fatality was 2,663,000. Reference is then made to a footnote stating that, according to Major General Mason M. Patrick of the U. S. Army Air Service, for a number of years prior to 1923, there was an average of one passenger casualty on U. S. railroads for about every 2,000,000 miles. There is a vast difference between a fatality and a casualty and, even if the information given in the footnote were correct, the comparison is not justified. Believing that...
...American railroad record is now better than prior...
...Refining Co. of New Jersey. Unfortunately, politicians had previously made a mare's nest out of the alleged "Sugar Trust," and by a decree in United States vs. American Sugar Refining Co., the matter of future merges of this company had taken on a political and legal aspect. Prior to 1911 American Sugar Refining had owned National Sugar Refining, but was compelled by the courts to dispose of its holdings. The two companies control about a third of the world's sugar refining facilities; a merger of the two would constitute the largest refining concern in the world...