Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stassen, Vandenberg had trampled on no toes, aroused no vindictive anger among other candidates. In fact, Harold Stassen and Tom Dewey have repeatedly gone out of their way to praise him. Few GOPoliticos believed that either Taft or Dewey would give up for the other to break a stalemate; instead, most believed that they would settle on Vandenberg as the man around whom all G.O.P. elements could most readily unite...
...U.A.W. got another sign that things were going to be tough all over. Ford replied to the union's opening demands for a 30?-an-hour raise with an answer the union could only consider a countercheck quarrelsome-a proposal that Ford workers take a cut instead. Said Ford Vice President John S. Bugas: "We think the American people are tired of negotiations which seem to have no other aim besides gain for all parties except the consumers." Ken Bannon, U.A.W. Ford director, retorted: if the company would exert its influence with industry and Congress "to effect a substantial...
...Washington, 16,000 school safety patrolmen from 13 states marched down Constitution Avenue, peered at Lindbergh's plane, climbed the Washington Monument. The 51 New Yorkers went instead to New York's City Hall, where they got medals, then to a ball game at Yankee Stadium...
...World War I, Abdullah and his father and brothers joined the British, led their followers in the Arab Revolt. Colonel T. E. Lawrence ("of Arabia"), chief British agent among the Arabs, thought Abdullah "too clever" and unpredictable to be the Arab leader of the rebellion, picked his brother Feisal instead...
...Oyly Carte cast is masterful in "Iolanthe." The most important factor in the evening's work remains Martyn Green, who is offered by the opera precisely the proper balance of singing and "business." Instead of the constant mugging of Ko-Ko or the small opportunities of the part of Major General Stanley, Green as the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" has "When you're Lying Awake," "Faint Heart Never Won," and "I said to Myself, Said I" to sing as well as some of his most entertaining business...