Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...competition; three of his four opponents-a 44-year-old Navy Commander named Nelson Levings, 55-year-old ex-Supreme Court Clerk Thomas Quitman Ellis and 66-year-old ex-Congressman Ross A. Collins-were campaigning hard. But Bilbo paid no heed. Instead he howled a warning: "The white people of Mississippi are sitting on a volcano. . . . We are faced with a nationwide campaign to integrate the nigger with the social life of this country...
...hotly disputed question of whether expert delegates to the commissions should be able to speak for themselves instead of their governments, Russia last week was working both sides of the street. Eleanor Roosevelt had held out for experts who could freely give their own views. Russian Delegate Nikolai I. Feonov disagreed, said that only if delegates are "representatives of their governments can useful work be done," otherwise the commissions would be mere "discussion clubs." Russia carried the point; by a vote of11-to-5 Ecosoc decided that members of all council commissions should sit as government representatives...
...United Nations against South Africa's racial-discrimination laws covering Indian nationals. The Indian evidence against South Africa was strong enough, but the plight of 250,000 Indians in South Africa was scarcely as important last week as the plight of 389,000,000 Indians in India, who, instead of standing happily on the threshold of independence, were faced with famine and a growing chance of political chaos...
...seamen hailed this as a victory, with reason. As the ships sailed again, the crews were on an eight-hour instead of a 12-hour day, which had been one of the chief bones of contention...
...Instead they may now consult a several page booklet, published this week, listing businesses which have been found reliable by wives whose husbands are now attending the Law School. Several Law School wives pointed out, however, that it leaves one problem unanswered--where to find an apartment...