Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Washington is red-faced, white-haired John J. Dempsey, New Mexico's lone Representative in the House. Onetime water boy on a railroad, hard-working Jack Dempsey fought his way to success, then, with the profits of some Oklahoma oil, went to New Mexico to retire. Instead, he got into politics up to his neck. He first entered Congress in 1935. In six years, he saw 99 of his bills become law-a legislative record...
...series of decrees Chief of State Pétain barred all non-Frenchmen (i.e., Jews) from holding Government positions, "invited" industry to send employed farmers back to their fields and to create collective organizations for housing and feeding workers, spoke of pegging the franc to the dollar instead of the pound (43 to the dollar).* Said...
That other necessary component of the Fascist State, the single party, promptly made its appearance. Deputy Marcel Déat ("I do not want to die for Danzig") announced that he had declined a Cabinet post, instead would form a French Uniform Party to support Leader-Designate Laval "which would place an authoritarian people's movement at the side of the authoritarian regime." Party planks: 1) France must do nothing to compete with German industry; 2) compulsory labor service for youth; 3) "France for the French...
When the Italian commander discovered he was faced by a real battle squadron instead of only a light force from Cyprus or Malta, he turned (said Sir Andrew) and ran for home, spewing smoke screens to cover his departure. Before the smoke got too thick, Sir Andrew opened up with his biggest guns at extreme range (approximately 20 miles). He thought he obtained a hit before the swift Italian ships got to safety. One of his ships sank the Zeffiro when she ran close to the oncoming British to lay smoke. Elsewhere in the Mediterranean, the British submarine Parthian found...
...British defense measures multiplied as necessity mothered invention. Someone discovered that, whereas a strong stream of water from a hose only spreads a fire ignited by incendiary bombs (thermite"), a gentle sprinkle from a stirrup pump with finely perforated nozzle, like a garden watering can, douses the incandescent particles instead of scattering them. All stores were soon sold out of stirrup pumps...