Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...tell all that is going on in Washington at the Congressional hearings on the draft bill? Why not disclose that Army leaders admit they have been getting more than their quota on a voluntary three-year enlistment and have a waiting list? Why not tell that the compromise suggests instead the proposal to give young men a chance to volunteer on a one-year basis at $30 a month instead of the present $21 and three-year enlistment? Why not bring out that the Gallup Poll, which you use as an argument for conscription, did not get the poll...
...Democratic candidate for President last week disdained to answer the challenge in Wendell Willkie's G. O. P acceptance speech. President Roosevelt instead chose waspish Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes to sting back Mr. Willkie. Some Ickes stingers...
...Milch's military colleagues like him. He is more a business go-getter than a military man of the German pattern. Instead of sternness he has a bland, baby-faced smoothness. Some super-Nazis still view with suspicion his birth, despite his mother's affidavit that he was illegitimate. Her husband, who gave the child his name, was a Jew. But Hitler likes and trusts him highly, gave him a gold Nazi Party pin (great favor...
Objections to the bill were soon heard. Loudest came from Congress' left wing - Jerry Voorhis of California, Wisconsin's Bob La Follette. They thought it coddled profits instead of taxing them; they talked of boosting the top bracket rate from 40% to 82%. They also disliked Choice i, on the grounds that it would let slip the most profitable corporations. But their biggest objection was to the 20% depreciation allowance and the Vinson-Trammell repeal. Calling the latter "bribes" to induce manufacturers to do their duty under the Defense program, they would have preferred to hand business...
...cows" are not steers but cow boys. Malapropism is not Curtiz' only peculiarity. He addresses everyone at Warner's up to Bette Davis as "you bum," gives the best borscht bawlings-out in the business. He takes no lunch, tried to coax actors to have an aspirin instead, uses "after-lunch actor" as his supreme epithet of contempt. When anything goes wrong on the set, Curtiz is immediately convinced that he is being jinxed by the presence of his personal secretary, whom he calls "Dracula," stops everything to find him. Once John Barrymore, visiting a Santa Monica dance...