Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could vote, the police told them, either for an obscure and locally unpopular candidate offered by Dictator Kemal's own "Peoples' Republican Party" or for the eminent and honored Fethi Bey, founder-candidate of the new "Liberal Republican Party." When some of the rabble began to howl "Bread, bread!", protesting that in their misery they did not want to vote, police lashes curled, cracked. His Excellency Fethi Bey was triumphally elected. Next day 15 Kemalist Deputies deserted the President's party as ostentatiously as possible, announced that after communing with their consciences they had become...
...Bethalto, 111., George Kabel, 8y-year-old farmer, estimated that he had threshed enough wheat in his lifetime to make 118,-320,000 loaves of bread...
Students of economic history are wide awake these days. More than ever before it seems to be a fact that bread rules the world. The papers seem to realize how great a part they play in the control of the national temper. For bread and the press seem to be the key notes of the question. Publicity can be controlled by the press and intelligence is learning how to direct the distribution of bread...
...loaf of bread into eight slices. Lay one slice flat, and on it set the other seven upright. That loaf is the total of college undergraduates. The horizontal slice is the freshman class; the seven vertical slices are the residents of the seven Houses. Two of the new House Plan buildings, Dunster House and Lowell House, are ready for use; a third, Eliot House, are ready for use; a third, Eliot House, is begun. In each of the two finished Houses about 300 men, from the sophomore, junior, and senior classes, begin study this week. This year the freshmen remain...
...unemployed began sifting in from Budapest's industrial suburbs toward the Inner City and the Municipal Park. With the noon whistle, when thousands of factory hands threw down their tools, the trickle swelled to a river. Socialist and Communist agitators appeared magically, shouting for government dole, free bread lines, work on government projects. Squads of mounted gendarmes moved nervously up and down the avenues...