Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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There are some Americans who want this country to go to war. But they have been afraid to say so, for fear of losing their standing. Instead, they have resorted to "educating" the American people to the real "issues" in Europe. They are hypocrites, and their writings are the purest and most vicious propaganda. In one mood, they hiss and spit their scorn of isolationism; in another they cower before it, paralyzed by a fear that keeps them from voicing their innermost feelings. But the President, as the leader of not only the United States, but the Western Hemisphere...
...sweeping streets. In his spare time he will have episcopal jurisdiction over the 400 Italian congregations of the Church of God of A. J. Tomlinson, in the U. S. and abroad. Of little concern is it to Bishop Paolicelli that he wears a white-wing's cap instead of a mitre. Says he : "The Apostle Peter fished, so why shouldn't a bishop clean streets...
...last week imperious, resourceful A. P. brushed even RFC aside. Instead, he undertook one of the largest privately underwritten bank financings in U. S. history: 600,000 shares of convertible Bank of America $2 preferred at $50 a share. Swiftly and smoothly underwritten, its provisions are characteristic of A. P. First call on the shares wall go to Bank of America's 145,000 present stockholders, biggest of whom is Transamerica, most of whom are small-money Westerners who admire old A. P. Among them they will absorb more than half the issue. To assure widespread distribution, nobody...
Often Traveler Daniels says in his velvety way that he didn't like it. Of the modern motor highway: "Instead of Connecticut, the rider sees mile after mile of identical right of way prettified with a million dollars' worth of grass and tree. ..." He has a quiet eye for the significantly grotesque: "A gymnasium which looks like a cathedral backs up in New Haven to a dark yard where boys play ball beside a huge garbage heap where first base ought...
...PRESIDENT-W. C. Fields - Dodd, Meod ($1.50). Cob-nosed W. C. Fields, with his marvelous sense of timing, here throws his hat in the Presidential ring and leaps on the stump, in one motion. He does not indulge much or effectively in the Will Rogers type of political ribbing; instead, he maunders on about a vaudeville seal, a cornet rendition of The Whistler and His Dog, drops useful hints on bodybuilding, the care of babies. Even without the Fields voice and the Fields mannerisms, the Fields pen shows a delicate sense of U. S. language. The book contains some mothy...