Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shirted group of some 1,000,000 members, officially recognized as an instrument of the State much like Il Duce's Fascists. To a group of these in a Burgos theatre, General Juan Yague last month announced: "Our leader [General Franco] has said that no home shall lack bread and fuel. He is a man of his word. Social justice there will be. The only question is how generous it will be. If a man fighting for Spain, although himself possessing nothing to defend, returns home without finding his wants satisfied, he will demand justice from men and from...
Last week, while a U. S. Circuit court was giving NLRB another one in the bread basket (see above), the Second Appellate Court of Illinois upheld the convictions for contempt, clearly informed Illinois employers that State and local law still protected them from illegally conducted sit-downs. Said the Court: "There is nothing in the Wagner Act which deals with the subject of violence or any illegal acts committed by employes in the course of an industrial dispute, and in our opinion Congress did not by this enactment deprive or attempt to deprive the States of their police power...
...addition to being tense, Cleveland's most wretched citizens were undoubtedly very hungry. One destitute mother of seven children who was expecting an eighth fed her family through neighbors' aid. The menu: breakfast, bread and tea; lunch, spaghetti and bread; dinner, bread and salmon. The children shared a quart of milk. A 76-year-old woman who said she had not had a square meal for six days waited from 5 to 8 a. m., for a relief station to open its doors. Another fainted, was taken to a hospital for treatment, then released. A Mrs. Florence Barindt...
...actions of a certain set of Sophomores in Memorial Hall. In the matter of loud talking, boisterous behavior, and general vulgarity of demeanor they are unexcelled. If they would indulge in their monkeyshines when there are no strangers about; but they seem to take particular delight in throwing bread, hammering on the table and cursing the waiter when there are spectators in the gallery. Just at this time the public is subjecting Harvard students to a good deal of unfavorable criticism, and it behooves us to be very careful of the impressions we give. (Letter to the Crimson...
...consumers generallv as well as to the Government." That U. S. wheatmen have not been asking much as they would have asked had n Sir John and Mr. Chamberlain been secretive, and by the same token U. S. citizens have not had to pay as much for wheat and bread as otherwise would have been the case...