Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...revamping of the civil service may be camouflage to anchor the present recipients of New Deal patronage. For years no Democrat now in office who gave his all to the campaigns of '32 and '36 would have to worry about bread and butter. Although the suggested department of social welfare consolidates a multitude of agencies, there appears no good reason why Public Works should be rated important enough for a separate department, Terming the Interstate Commerce Commission a "headless, fourth branch of the Government, over which the constitutional Chief Executive has little control," the Brownlow Committee reveals how clearly...
...Generalissimo Franco would simply be Dictator Hitler's puppet. Meanwhile in Germany, decrees were drafted to keep in the Fatherland all men of fighting age (18 to 45 years); an acute grain shortage was admitted in the German press; frantic Nazi campaigns were launched to make Germans save bread crusts, "tighten their belts," and Naziland seemed to be preparing for some great effort next spring or sooner...
Because it is a low-lying alluvial plain. the entire coastal fringe of Louisiana is as soggy as a piece of fresh bread dunked in soup. Crisscrossed by bayous and canals. the Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still...
...name of Largo Caballero and other Spanish Marxians as individuals, bank accounts have been set up in France. On the Pyrenees frontier last week seedy-looking persons crossing from Spain were found by French customs guards to have gold pieces and even ingots concealed in loaves of bread. Thus it appeared that before fleeing from Madrid the Cabinet not only "democratized" rifles and pistols by handing them out openly but must also have flung to the Madrid mob a portion of the nation's metallic reserves...
...Manhattan, Bert Lascoff, 20, explained to police that he woke from "a bad dream" to find that he had chased his father out of their bedroom, pursued him through five rooms, stabbed him eight times with a bread knife...