Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...asked whether such heat-turning-on was "a new departure in policy." It was not new at all, replied the President. He recalled that when he was a Senator, National Chairman Jim Farley had put the heat on him, tried to get him to vote for Alben Barkley instead of the late Pat Harrison for Senate majority leader. Senator Truman, President Truman confessed, had voted for Pat Harrison anyway...
...question of party discipline, party policy. The trouble was, there were a lot of Democrats on Capitol Hill who thought they had a say in party policy, too. At week's end, they seemed to be in a mood to follow the practice of Senator Truman instead of the preaching of President Truman...
...mistress. His first hats were as fantastic as they were expensive, and sold like hot cakes. Often they really were hot cakes: Chatillon found that steaming Mexican tortillas, molded to the head and well-shellacked, made salable chapeaux. He made other hats from zacate, the maguey fiber Mexicans use instead of steel wool, and the cheap woven straw strips used to cinch saddles under horses' bellies. Among his clients: Magda Lupescu and Dolores...
...Friday, when the Series moved to Ebbets Field, the fans were ready for Brooklyn's usual wide-open, slambang style of play. Instead, for eight innings, the game jogged right along in the pattern : a pitching exhibition between Brooklyn's usually erratic Ralph Branca, who settled down to retire 14 batters in a row and New York's ace-in-the-sleeve Relief Pitcher Joe Page, who replaced Tommy Byrne in the fourth inning...
Poor Cousins. Furthermore, says the FORUM, the public should treat the school crisis as a permanent one; "instead of handling 'temporary' schools as poor cousins, so badly built and maintained that children rightfully hate to go to them, we should set out to produce temporary schools of top quality." With up-to-date techniques, including prefabrication, a community can build an attractive new schoolhouse quickly and cheaply. When the time comes to remodel, rebuild, or abandon the school entirely, no large investment has been wasted...