Word: instead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...collect the funds that subsidized heelers and won elections. He persistently opposed labor legislation, old-age pensions because such laws cost businessmen money. The Smoot-Hawley tariff bill he still regards as his masterpiece. A bachelor, he wears high button shoes, smokes Havana cigars, burns Texas oil instead of Pennsylvania coal in his plants because it's cheaper...
...office, he will issue no commands. Instead he will act as an intermediary and coordinator between the possessions and the central government, keeping in touch with Congress on all legislation relating to them. Emerson will also formulate policy for the management and the bettering of living conditions of the possessions...
Informed that he had inherited the threadbare baronetcy of his uncle, the late Sir John Henry Lee Fagge, who was a handyman in Pepperell, Mass, till he fell heir to his title, Sir Fred Fagge, of Faversham, Kent, England, downed three beers instead of his customary two, wiped his mouth, announced his plans: to remain a farmhand...
...Instead of making a profit for 1939 our company lost a lot of money. We think our company lost money because so many grocers quit handling Hillbilly flour because dad was trying to get some kind of a tax bill* passed so the State could pay pensions to the old folks. . . . But we had a big surprise coming...
...play straightened out this artful tangle in the only way to avoid sentimentality or unpremeditated farce-Rims crawled back through his wife's bedroom window. Julius J. & Philip G. Epstein's otherwise brilliant script would have done well to follow the play. Instead it sends Father Halevy into unsuitable heroics, makes Rims flex his moral muscle, resolve to fight on to victory because his wife is going to have a baby...