Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discharge your sworn obligations to the Federal Government or wish to make a confession of your inability to effectively direct the activities of your department, for which a large proportion of a $36,000.000 appropriation is allotted, the admission should be made primarily to your superiors in Washington, instead of 'passing the buck' to the State law-enforcing officers. Your plan would necessitate increasing the police personnel by 5,000 men, costing the taxpayers of the City of New York a minimum of $15,000,000 per annum...
...Female members of the national committees are chosen by the male committeemen from their States with the idea of giving themselves two votes instead of one. The most desirable quality in the female politician is docility. . . . Contrary to precedent Mrs. Pratt was not chosen by Dewey [Hilles]. . . . She will not be docile . . . will neither revere nor follow him in the way of her fair predecessor. Last year she exhibited a distressing lack of faith in Dewey's political judgment, refusing to follow him in the 'draft Coolidge' movement, preferring to ally herself with the early effort...
Russian industrial production and Russian factory wages have been increased, Stalin declared, almost exactly according to schedule. Moreover, instead of the 21% increase in production which the Five Year Plan hopefully called for, the Soviet Union's industrial production actually increased 24% during the past twelvemonth. Only by failing to achieve notably reduced prices for manufactured goods of sustained quality did Soviet Russia fall behind her schedule...
Last week the umpire, level-headed Mr. Justice Rigby Swift, announced the decision: Instead of the 12½% wage reduction demanded by mill owners, spinners and weavers must accept...
...paraphrase of its own imitations. The Dance of Life is too long and overdetailed; it is handicapped with a tedious theme-song. Its virtues are faithfulness to its background, fairly legitimate sentiment, expert acting by the same people who played Burlesque on the stage except Nancy Carroll who, instead of Barbara Stanwyck, plays Bonnie...