Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pushing back his spectacles in amazement, old Chairman Doughton asked: "Would you have the same rate on bread and wheat as cigarets and whiskey?" Mr. Cromwell: "Yes, sir." Thoroughly nettled, long-faced Congressman Fred Vinson quickly calculated that on the base suggested by Mr. Cromwell the sales tax would have to be 18%. This, Mr. Cromwell admitted, was "a little high." Thus, last week, like scores of other U. S. citizens, Husband Cromwell exercised his right to be heard on a new tax bill in the making...
After being revived with bread crumbs and a glass of water, the hen spent the whole day in the office and then left in the evening with Mr. Hardy. Mr. Hardy has recently moved to Randolph where he already has a flock of chickens. This newest addition, he says, is an excellent specimen of a Plymouth Rock...
...exactly how this was to be done or recommending any substitute taxes to make up an estimated $7,500,000 loss in revenue, Governor White declared: "The home is a home, whether it be occupied by a man of wealth or by a man who must earn his daily bread by his daily toil. . . . An amendment to the constitution may be necessary . . . but if so, I think there is no question whatever that our people would overwhelmingly ratify such an amendment at the polls...
...water in his 18-foot canoe, 17-year-old Heurtley was picked up only 30 miles from his starting point. Paddling night and day because it was too cold to sleep, the former Harvard student cooked some bacon one night, and the rest of the time ate bread, chocolate, and apples...
...steamboat because of the ever-present danger of exploding boilers. The account of Mother Duchesne's work-which did not come to an end until 1852-occupies half of Mother Callan's book. It is full of homely detail: the French nuns' first encounter with corn bread; Mother Duchesne's purchase of a slave, Rachel, from her bishop "as a favor" when he left for France, later reselling her to help pay for a dormitory...