Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Throughout the report Almazan's claims and viewpoints are quoted frequently, those of the opposition never. . . . For all of which I don't give a tinker's damn except for the timing of the article. Our Good-Neighbor policy is urgently necessary to us today...
...means clear that Candidate Almazan was "resentfully repudiated," except by the political machine. Because the political machine of PRM, CTM and Agrarians declared for Avila Camacho does not mean that they went down the line for him. Many observers believe that a good part of the labor vote deserted Avila Camacho on election day. The Agrarian Party to which Reader Fishback refers is allied...
...contents, and the sale of all pastry to be prohibited on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays. In restaurants a new decree provided that neither fish nor cheese could be served with a meat meal and that meat could not be included in meals served after 3 p.m. except on Sundays and holidays. As rationing cards for sugar, rice, soap, fats and oils were instituted, Minister of Agriculture Pierre Caziot warned the French nation that there would be severe rationing of butter, cheese and milk...
...Germans, echoing a story in the New York Daily News, claimed they had effectively "closed" the port of London, had stopped virtually all traffic in & out of Hull, Newcastle, Southampton. Great Britain replied that none of these ports was closed except momentarily, to sweep up mines. Minister of Shipping Ronald Cross admitted, however, that traffic at any port might be dislocated at any time by "war conditions," for which...
...these very Italian forces in East Africa threatened to cut off the British who had cut them off. Except for the dangerous route the full length of the Mediterranean, the main supply line of the British forces at Port Said runs the length of the Red Sea after passing Perim at the head of the Gulf of Aden...