Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany, as a group and as the representatives of a great power, were serving neither themselves nor America well." You people at home are the last ones that should talk about how we act. We came over here with good faith in you, the American people, and now instead of standing behind us you take a few moments off from your money-grabbing and squabbling not to help us but to find fault with our job. Instead of setting a good example for other nations to follow, you as a nation act so shamefully that we are almost ashamed...
Until something is done to make Congress and the War Department become more interested in seeing that we get a fair deal instead of using us to sway public opinion to their side, we will never feel that doing a good job is worth the effort...
Since nominations for Man of the Year are now open, may I suggest that this year, you should not be nominating Man of the Year, but instead, Men of the Year. I refer to G.I. Joes, the soldiers, sailors and marines, who in my opinion have more than merited the title Men of the Year...
...more than its own reward. By going independent-and by an artistic use of the capital gains tax-they could also make money fabulous even for Hollywood. A corporation can hold its picture for six months, then sell it and call the profit a capital gain, taxable at 25% instead of 85-95%, the top tax on ordinary income. A producer can either 1) sell his interest as a stockholder in the corporation; or 2) dissolve the company that made the picture. An example: Independent Producer Lester Cowan, who made Story of G.I. Joe and Tomorrow the World, sold...
...headlines, reserved for Briand, instead blazoned the news: Ivar Kreuger, the grammar-school dullard from Kalmar, Sweden, who had grown up into the world match king, had killed himself...