Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Equality. After a little more grumbling, the Senate gave in-but not before it had lopped almost a half off the President's proposal, which the House had already approved. Cabinet officers were jumped from $15,000 to $22,500 a year (instead of the $25,000 Harry Truman requested); Presidential Aides Clark Clifford and John Steelman got raises to $20,000; White House Secretaries Charles G. Ross, William D. Hassett and Matt Connelly to $18,000. The under secretaries, assistant secretaries, bureau heads and commissioners who run Washington's alphabetical beehive were raised to $15,000 -approximately...
...fifth time in 41 years, Oklahoma's wets did their doggondest to repeal the state prohibition law. Everyone would be far better off, they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...
...church-going United Drys (many of whom fasted and prayed for victory at the polls) were fiercely proud of living in a prohibition state.* So, naturally, were the bootleggers. And many an Oklahoma drinker liked prohibition too-there was plenty of good liquor, prices were reasonable, and instead of going out to buy a bottle he could have one delivered promptly to his door. Last week, by a margin of 55,400 votes, Oklahomans of all persuasions decided once more that prohibition was just too good to give...
Britain's King George III once let his heavy Teutonic eyes wander sheeplike in the direction of a lovely, unpredictable minx named Lady Sarah Lennox. For political reasons he could not marry her, had to settle instead for a mousy, home-loving German princess, Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Later, when George's younger brothers Gloucester and Cumberland married their own lights-of-love without so much as a by-your-leave, George was furious and had Parliament pass the Royal Marriage Act of 1772. It has provided ever since that George's descendants may not marry without...
...arbitration offer sponsored by President Truman and Prime Minister Attlee" as "yet another device to deny freedom to the people of Kashmir." Nehru told them: "My anxiety has always been for a fair and impartial plebiscite." There was, however, a noticeable lessening of Indian enthusiasm for a plebiscite. Instead, the Indian press trotted out the old charge that Pakistan had entered Kashmir as a military aggressor and ought to be punished as such. Abdullah told the convention: "We want to tell the whole world that Kashmir has decided, whatever difficulties may arise, we will always be with India...