Word: hitherto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week U. S. Conciliator James F. Dewey with the help of Ford's Harry Bennett, whose company is a Briggs customer, got hitherto stubborn Briggs executives into a more cooperative frame of mind. Able, amiable Mr. Dewey then succeeded in settling most of the specific grievances which had caused the strike...
...Tokyo, up popped Kovichi Seito, hitherto unheard of Japanese brother-in-law of Dictator Busch. Guessed Seito: Bolivia will soon join the Anti-Comintern Pact. Guessed Bolivian Minister Dr. Antonio Campero Arce in Rome: Bolivia is a totalitarian State, it will soon join the Pact. Kept guessing in Washington, U. S. observers guessed hardest about Bolivia's oil barter deal with Germany, gasped at a rumor that an ex-German staff officer in Bolivia swung...
...State Department he transferred the foreign offices of Commerce and Agriculture. (Assistant Secretary of Commerce Richard C. Patterson Jr., already miffed by the elevation over him of Edward J. Noble to Harry Hopkins' elbow, promptly resigned.) Also, the Foreign Service Buildings Commission, hitherto independent...
...another place he asks "Are the categories hitherto used in, let us say, University teaching, in our times, and our fathers', really serviceable? Does any really good mind ever get a kick out of studying stuff that has been put into water-tight compartments and hermetically sealed...
...Philip Simms was more explicit. He wrote from Washington he had "secret information" that Führer Hitler was thinking over the possibility of sudden, simultaneous moves against Poland, Egypt, Suez and Gibraltar. Added" Editor Simms: "A sinister aspect of the report is that Marshal Hermann Göring, hitherto regarded as a moderate in opposition to Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop and [Police Chief] Heinrich Himmler, is now said to favor a lightning war." Meanwhile, scarcely less ominous were actual diplomatic and military maneuverings...