Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak had not been honored by the immigration police of Brother-in-Law Serrano Suñer's Ministry of Government. "It is an affair of honor!" the Colonel reportedly told the Generalissimo, "I gave my word of honor that they should pass!" Instead, MM. Pierlot and Spaak were in jail in Spain last week, at Axis request...
Last year General Almazan asked Reporter Frank Gibler, who had spent some 20 years shuttling between Mexico and the U. S., to be Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from...
...accused the Nazis of showering germs over London. Instead, disease bar rages were being fired by Londoners at each other in their dank, ill-ventilated, evil-smelling air-raid shelters, where hundreds of thousands huddled together every night - young & old, sick & well, with only makeshift toilet facilities and no chance to perform personal hygiene...
Charles L. Wagner is a U. S. impresario who looks like Jim Farley in a toupee and who long ago exchanged his flat Illinois drawl for rapid-fire Manhattanese. Fifty years ago he gave up collecting celebrities' autographs, began collecting them on contracts instead. Since then Impresario Wagner has barnstormed up & down the U. S. selling such big-time figures as William Jennings Bryan, John McCormack, Galli-Curci. Mary Garden, Walter Gieseking to the public...
...melodies of Gershwin and Porter. She has had some fun in Hollywood, including one session in which, during the absence of Don Ameche from his dressing room, she helped to nail his clothing to his furniture. On the whole she is not congenially disposed toward the cinema capital. Instead of the almost invariably warm audience just across the footlights, there are cold microphones and technicians...