Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Street, special interests and predatory wealth." Governor Murray loosed a savage political attack upon President Hoover after which a quartet sang a new Murray campaign song entitled "Hoover Made a Soup Houn' Outa Me."* Already in wide circulation were "Murray-For-President" buttons and the Murray campaign slogan: "Bread, Butter, Bacon, Beans...
...something different so his father took him to see his birthplace on University Avenue at 181st Street. He saw the nook under the stairs where his baby-carriage used to stand, the rigging on the firescape where his diapers hung, the grocery next door where a loaf of bread was snatched from his mother's hands because she could not pay immediately...
...dismissed the subject. A few days later she received a call from a tall Swede, vaguely familiar. He was a brother who had disappeared 26 years ago from their home in the north of Sweden. Soprano Ljungberg well remembers the day. She had just made her first loaves of bread, set them proudly on the windowsill to cool. Brother Ljungberg took the bread when he ran away. He lives in Brooklyn now, calls himself Youngberg because people could never learn that the L in his name was silent...
...Harrisburg next morning it was accompanied by a car full of medical supplies donated by the people of Huntingdon. Nobody paid and nobody tried to collect the 10¢ toll at the Clarks Ferry bridge (over the Susquehanna River). From time to time wheezy motors gave out. Once the bread trucks were hours behind time, but somehow they kept on going. Troopers patrolling the march discreetly looked the other way when they saw a 1931 automobile license in the line. Governor Pinchot had ordered the stringent State law relaxed for the occasion...
...million automobiles on the road in 1931 were an economic necessity almost as valid as bricks and bread. Almost, but not quite, for the automobile still combines pleasure with necessity. To millions of owners it is their most beautiful and costly possession. Its esthetic appeal is at once its weakness and its strength, for the potential owner who need not buy for necessity must be made to buy for pleasure. If he bought enough, the automobile industry might again perform its magic trick, might pull Prosperity out of Depression...