Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Everyone knows that Stalin's mother tried to make him a priest (TIME, Dec. 8, 1930), and every Russian knows that for 300 years at least Russian scoffers have baited Russian believers with the following rigmarole: "I believe that Jesus fed 5,000 people with five loaves of bread, but I do not believe they weren't hungry afterward. I believe that water can be turned into wine but I do not believe any one can get drunk...
...wide experience from hoping bread lines, soup kitchens, and rooming in lodging houses, Mr. Williams will explain the impulse to work...
...party bill, flayed it on a breach of party tradition. They vehemently argued that it was a tax upon the necessities of life, and hence upon the poor man, without regard to ability to pay. Mockingly they declared that the only thing exempt would be admission to a bread line. Some hotheads even denied the necessity of balancing the Budget by taxation at all. To each & every critic of the sales tax, secretly afraid of losing his political skin in the next election, acting Chairman Crisp calmly retorted: "Where else can you raise the necessary money...
...income tax will be felt where the depression has struck only lightly hitherto. In any case the rich do not wave a red flag. There have been casualties among the capitalists, but the dance has gone on. A stiff income tax may prevent the spectacle of a bread line shouldering the bejeweled guests at a charity ball...
Your March 17th list of "Democratic" and "Republican" straw vote presidential candidates was highly provoking--of laughter. The people are crying for bread, but you offer them different colors of stones...