Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only objection leveled against the Hoover plan was that among its beneficiaries would be the top-hatted gentlemen who earn their daily bread in the fields of international finance. Quick to take this line of attack were the Hearstpapers whose big-nosed publisher, predicting that Herbert Hoover could be elected President of any country but the U. S., declared "here and now for Calvin Coolidge for the next President of the U. S." Led as always by the great internationally- minded House of Morgan, the sagest bankers and economists of the land had long and quietly been pressing just some...
...girls wait down by the free port for the sailors to go uptown for shore leave, and they beg cigarets, sugar, meat, bread, shoes, anything except money, from the lads they snare. They don't want rubles. They are no good to them since they can't buy anything with them, and they don't dare fool around with valuta, as the G. P. U. is very suspicious over any Russian possessing foreign money...
...Zenzinov planned to escape again when he had reached his destination, the six-house village of Russkoye Ustye, but when he got there found it was too isolated, too far from everywhere. "There were no relations with the outside world. Fish was the constant food all the year round. Bread was unobtainable. Traders did not come there. . . ." He settled down in his "house" (six feet by six), prepared to make the best of things. It was cold. In winter he could never get the temperature in his room higher than 50°. Outside it would be anything from...
...Freedom & Bread!" Not without reason is Dr. Brüning called new Germany's "Iron Chancellor." He stood like iron against demands from his own Catholic Center Party that Dr. Curtius be "sacrificed"' to the mob, dropped from the Cabinet...
...want to read a good imitation of a serious novel, try this one. It has many earmarks of what passes for worth; a pioneer panorama, noble savages, slick Manhattanites and Chicagoans, "frankness," a (pseudo) devil-may-care style. Author Tiffany Thayer knows how to butter his bread, knows many a reader will put up with oleomargarine if it is spread thick enough...