Word: priore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Petrov's face in your picture looked strangely familiar to me. I compared it with the photo my brother sent me of his wife Evdokia and himself (prior to his disappearance), and I was almost sure that my brother's wife Evdokia and Mrs. Petrov were the same person. After that, I got a copy of their book and, true enough, Evdokia in her autobiography describes in detail her life with my brother, and the tragic fate that befell him after his arrest and imprisonment by the State Security Police in Moscow in 1937. Thus, after 20 years...
...decade following World War II," Warren continued, "there appeared a new kind of congressional inquiry unknown in prior periods of American history. Principally this was the result of the various investigations into the threat of subversion of the U.S. Government . . . This new phase of legislative inquiry involved a broad-scale intrusion into the lives and affairs of private citizens...
...adopted a better system of selecting the many entries than has obtained in the past: each of the ten jurors was allowed up to 10 unchallenged individual choices, and the rest were then picked by majority vote. The prizes were awarded by a separate jury consisting of Harris K. Prior, Director of the American Federation of Arts, New York; Perry T. Rathbone '33, Director of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts; and Edgar P. Richarson, Director of the Detroit Institute of Arts...
Edward Sullivan, president of the Building Service local, said that his union's agreement to the eligibility of the employees depended upon the authenticity of statements concerning the individuals made at an informal Labor Relations Commission hearing prior to the election. He said that the protest was lodged after the local decided that the statements were not true. Sullivan would not reveal the nature of the statements...
Asst. Secretary of the Army Hugh Milton said that the halt in recruiting of men with no prior military service was only temporary and that it was done to "unclog the pipeline" overloaded by the large number of men who have joined up in the last few months...