Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Madison Square. A weekend of conferences on foreign affairs preceded the President's second campaign trip; and as his train went north, Italians were moving southeast into Greece, and Turkey was arming. Except for a half-hour's delay for White House reports, the President kept on, parading through each of New York City's five boroughs on his way to his second major speech, at Madison Square Garden...
...Except such old impertisans as Al Smith, who growled like a political Jimmy Durante: "So the convention drafted the third term candidate! Drafted, hey? Kuh-h-h-loney...
Roosevelt: "We will not . . . send our Army, naval or air forces to fight in foreign lands outside of the Americas except in case of attack...
Lewis for Willkie had for days been the theme of prophetic headlines. About the only people who could not yet believe that Lewis would come out for Willkie were lesser C. I. O. leaders. More than any other man, except Franklin Roosevelt himself, John Lewis had built up the faith of his membership in the President. In union halls, by home radios, they now waited to hear a faint, damning kiss for Willkie, or else John Lewis echoing the President's "A plague o' both your houses!" They heard...
...British account denied damage to any British ship except the destroyer Kimberley. This 1,690-ton vessel, said the Admiralty, pursued the convoy's attackers, which included two Italian destroyers. She chased the 1,058-ton Francesco Nullo to shore, shelling her so she had to be beached. While the Kimberley was polishing off the Nullo with a torpedo, three field guns ashore opened up on her. Splinters from one hit damaged a steam pipe, reduced the speed of the Kimberley. Because her silhouette is not unlike the Sydney's, mistaking the Kimberley for a cruiser might...