Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House committee also decided on beneficence in another direction. Under the prodding of Minnesota's Walter H. Judd, who was once a missionary in China, it voted to give Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist government $20 million a month, starting in January (instead of in April, as Secretary of State Marshall had proposed). At this rate, China would get $60 million in interim...
...Republican whip in the House, proposed that a national referendum be held on the question: "Are you willing to pay your share of the Marshall Plan if it means a minimum of 10% increase in your cost of living, a withholding tax of at least 30% of your pay instead of the present 20%?" This was only the beginning. If Bob Taft had his way-and kept heading the way he seemed to be going-ERP was in for serious trouble...
...Santa Fe, General Pat Hurley, rambunctious ex-Ambassador to China, asked his friends to dissolve New Mexico's 19 "Hurley-for-President" Clubs, decided to take another crack at the Senate instead. Edged out last time by Democrat Dennis Chavez, Republican Hurley this time would take on shrewd Carl Hatch...
...time being, Boston will handle the Varsity and Freshman coaching jobs. Last year's Yardling coach, Jay Thomas, plans to work with the theory of relativity in the Graduate Department of Physics instead of with grapplers. Athletic Association officials hope to settle on a new coach before the Christmas vacation dawns...
...Azhar pays all its students a regular salary (from $2 to $12 a month) instead of charging them tuition. It gets ?350,000 a year from the Egyptian government, is also heavily endowed by wealthy Moslem alumni. There are no entrance exams, though every Egyptian student is expected to know the Koran (the Moslem Bible and Al Azhar's main textbook) by heart-a feat they master...