Word: previously
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Higgins. They arrested Klein because a Buick car in the garage had blood-splattered upholstery, contained a discharged pistol cartridge and blocks for running it over a harbor stringpiece into oblivion. Tipsy and garrulous, Klein said he was living at the Acra estate, had been wakened by strangers the previous morning at 4 a. m., told to drive the Buick to Brooklyn and find one Fred Witcher who would help him dispose of it. They were to split $50 for the job. After obtaining the blocks, he had spent his $25 on drink. Police traced the car to its owner...
Whatever the actual decisions of the conference may have been, it was obvious that something was decided. Labor and Liberal leaders went about looking mysterious, announced a further unemployment conference for next week. The conference rumors, added to a late bulletin announcing that the previous week's unemployment figures had been reduced by 32,780, were just enough to send The City kicking up its heels in the first "boomlet" in months...
...petition signatures obtained by Chairman Bernard Snow of the Cook County Republican Committee and his Wet friends. Voters are asked three questions: 1) Shall the 18th Amendment be repealed? 2) Shall the Volstead Act be modified? 3) Shall the State Dry law be repealed? On two previous Prohibition polls (1922, 1926), Illinois voted Wet two-to-one. Observers last week could detect no shift in sentiment this year toward Dryness. The Republican leaders at Springfield therefore framed a party plank pledging themselves to go Wet if the referendum should go Wet. Up rose Nominee McCormick to declare...
...begins in a ballroom and develops in a sleighride. Old English (Warner). Although John Galsworthy rewrote his famous short story for presentation on the stage, it was never a play in the strict terms of dramatic construction, but rather the concluding act of the unwritten play that was the previous life of Galsworthy's central character. Old English is at once a portrait and the epilog to a portrait; it is steeped in a mood of finality which would give it dignity even if it were less thoughtfully written. When George Arliss did it on the stage...
Last week Payne was taken to gaol at Stinnett, Tex., to save him from mob violence in Amarillo. There he confessed to the murder and to four previous attempts on his wife's life, asked a speedy execution...