Word: except
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...clear that, if the President rejects the nomination, he cannot force the Democratic Convention to nominate any candidate except Tennessee's Cordell Hull -with the faintly possible exception of Montana's Burton K. Wheeler...
...months was allowed to serve in his father's trenches as a private soldier. After Eton, he was tutored for four years along special lines mapped by his father, emphasizing economics. Also, travel. Oldtime U. S. newspapermen remember the democratic young prince (no great contrast, except among gay ladies, to Britain's then Prince of Wales) who accompanied King Albert through the U. S. in 1919, playing poker with them, driving the locomotive. With his father he visited Brazil and Egypt. He went alone to the Belgian Congo and wrote a report on it so thorough that...
...Committee for Music Appreciation spread it to other cities (TIME, July 3). By last week the records, now priced at $1.49 to $1.98, were still going great guns. In 50 cities an estimated 1,000,000 discs had been distributed, usually through newspapers, which got nothing from the deal except good will. In Indiana and Texas the record-selling was conducted as a State program. The National Committee swears that four out of five record-purchasers...
...Except for the Aquacade, last season's New York World's Fair had a pretty shoddy amusement area. This season, sadder but wiser Fair officials decided to shoot the works along the Midway with a $600,000 supercolossal patriotic spectacle, American Jubilee, which would be a small fair in itself...
Most other U. S. crops have been war casualties. In the first five months of the war, U. S. farm exports (except cotton) to the Allies were only $55,994,000; as against $134,711,000 in the same period of the year before. Those to Germany dropped from $4,963,000 to $17,000. With the spread of war to the Low Countries, U. S. farmers (who are already losing $10,000,000 of business every month because of the war) stand to lose another $66,000,000 a year...