Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Persecutions. In Moscow one definite act of persecution was committed last week by the Soviet Government: Jews were deprived of their Matzoth or "Passover Bread" by an order forbidding its sale...
...ushers in Public theatres, two in R-K-O theatres, and one of the Fox company, wake at, six each morning after six hours sleep and eat. Our daily bill of fare never changes: two dozen eggs, three quarts of milk, two cans of soup, and a loaf of bread. We run fifty miles each day, sleeping never on a bed and generally in an R-K-O theatre. At noon and at ten in the evening we have an hour for recreation when we are allowed to sit. The theatre men keep watch on us all the time...
...throughout the land last week not even the President of the U.S. knew. Government officials made guesses on unemployment, colored more by partisan politics than by positive facts. Senators flayed the Department of Labor for its paltry system of gathering labor statistics. The City of Milwaukee opened soup kitchens. Bread lines stretched out in Brooklyn. Manhattan's Bowery swarmed with sullen idle men. Communists staged demonstrations throughout the U.S. as well as abroad (see p. 21). Though these things combined to make the Hoover Administration acutely unemployment-conscious, none of them answered the question: how many jobless...
Seville. Eight thousand unemployed bearing banners, WE WANT BREAD AND WORK, called on the mayor and civil governor, demanded a dole of 75% of their former salaries. Seville's mayor announced that he would "do everything possible to get them work...
...present to duplicate the coat of a silver fox, whose long guard hair is blue for two inches closest to the body, black for the next half inch, white the outside half-inch and tipped with black. Dalton's foxes were fed on horsemeat, bread and milk, with occasional young calves. Modern ranch-bred silver foxes are fed cow's milk, with cream added for fat content when first weaned. Soon afterward they get eggs, liver, tripe or heart. Adult foxes are permitted to gobble whole meat, shredded wheat, fish, orange juice, tomato juice, turnips, spinach, porridge...