Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More effective than the praise which professional Prohibitors heap upon the job that gives them their daily bread, was a temperate, well-seasoned statement filed by Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Professor Fisher adroitly admitted most of the facts against which Wets have complained but insisted that even these facts do not outbalance the larger benefits of Prohibition. He charted the rise and fall of Prohibition as follows...
When Mr. Hoover as President-Elect was feted in Buenos Aires (TIME, Dec. 24. 1928), he roused tremendous popular enthusiasm by calling Argentina "the world's bread basket," a remark which Argentines misunderstood to mean that Mr. Hoover favored the introduction of bread made from Argentine flour into U. S. bread baskets...
...work was prolific, typically Parisian: spirited, gay, colorful, slightly malicious. His whiskered gallants, snorting horses and elegant courtesans completely picture Victorian and Second Empire Europe, make Britain's John Leech seem as stodgy as bread pudding...
...Bread cast on the waters of the Manhattan Call Money Market has long since ceased to come back tenfold. Last week call money hit a low of 2% and an average of 3%, compared to a low of 7% and an average of 9% for the corresponding week of 1929. Easy money contributed to an increased activity in both the bond market and the stockmarket, bond sales on the Stock Exchange going to $115,372,500 against $77,834,600 for the previous week and only $50,589,000 for the week a year ago. It was the best bond...
...They confide in me the misery of solitary confinement sentences, when they are fed on nothing but bread and water. I have complained repeatedly to Superintendent Boyd. I do not believe he sanctions these inhuman acts. But nothing is done. I expect to lose my job but it will be worth while if the school can be cleaned...