Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...instead of just intimidating propaganda designed to scare people, to stop them from talking about high taxes imposed by the New Deal. . . . What is the Department of Justice going to do to Governor Alfred M. Landon? At Buffalo he said that people paid 2? taxes on every loaf of bread...
...another, to show concessionaires his ideas of spotlessness. Next day he departed for his old home town of Flint, Mich, on other business while North Asbury housewives stormed the Market's debut, attracted by Mr. Durant's special lunches at 5? an item, his special offers of bread at two loaves for 12?, five pounds of sugar for 15?, potatoes at 2? a pound...
...therefore, an English politician declares that Germany does not need colonies because it is free to buy raw materials, then the declaration of this gentleman is about as intelligent as the question of the well-known Bourbon princess who at the sight of the revolutionary mob roaring for bread remarked in surprise, why, if the people did not have bread, did they not eat cake...
This time the Republicans obligingly documented their case with a list of 58 taxes which, they claimed, added 2? to the price of bread. An amazing political document, the list contained not 58 different kinds of taxes, but only 16 types, which the Republicans had multiplied by applying them individually at each step in the process of making and selling a loaf of bread. Thus a Federal income tax paid by farmer, grain elevator, flour mill, railroad, flour trucker, baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only...
...tended by the ancient Greeks, blown white and high in the mediaeval universities and handed down to us in a direct line through Paris, Oxford, and Cambridge, has at last produced a group of men whose chief ambitions . . . [are] to vote the Republican ticket, to keep out of the bread line, and to break 100 at golf. . . . Does one need to go to college to have such aspirations...