Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...They counted without the Party's resilient internal structure, its genius for rationalization. Its first week in gyration produced no public defections of bigwig Reds, no convincing evidence of mass withdrawals even among its Jewish members. Chiefly evident were changes in the Party's U. S. "line." Hitherto the emphasis was on opposition to Fascism; now it was on Peace (but not, in the Party organs, "at any price"). By bedding with Hitler, Joseph Stalin was shown to have done him a fatal favor (PACT SPLITS AXIS WAR ALLIANCE, headlined the Daily Worker). That Russia had replaced Japan...
...whole legion of non-Communist but hitherto sympathetic pinkos, the New Republic and the Nation deplored "Stalin's Munich," Hitler's "colossal diplomatic victory." For thousands of citizens who had contributed to the Front simple libertarian goodwill, there was no outlet save a murmur of disillusion over the land. For millions of suspicious isolationists the worst opinion of the Reds was merely confirmed. Famed Editor William Allen White's son William L. reported from Emporia: ". . . No one in Kansas was stunned this morning, and we are doing business as usual. . . . It's much simpler now that...
...Yale Law School, now a U. S. Circuit judge, Sam Clark, too, served first with SEC. His presence at Justice makes Treasury lawyers (of whom Tom Corcoran's young friend Edward Foley is now chief) feel more like working with the Attorney General's Office, which they hitherto avoided...
...when the U. S. ratified a new treaty which gave the Republic of Panama: 1) control of its own resources (no longer can the U. S. obtain land outside the Canal Zone for "maintenance, operation, sanitation and protection" of the Canal merely by asking); 2) a transisthmian highway, hitherto blocked by Panama Railroad's monopoly; 3) $430,000 instead of $250,000 Canal Zone rent per annum (retroactive to 1934) to compensate for devaluation of the U. S. dollar...
...length of the spectrum. Painstakingly they analyzed the entire skin surface of three white men, three white women, a Japanese, a Hindu, a Negro and a mulatto. Last week in one of the most thorough analyses of skin color ever published, Drs. Edwards and Duntley announced: 1) two pigments hitherto unknown in the skin are involved in skin color; 2) skins of all races are chemically similar...