Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference declaration for centralized Federal control of business (TIME, June 10) would somehow make them a cracker jack issue for 1936. On one of his cross-country pilgrimages to Republican shrines, Herbert Clark Hoover snatched at it like a starving man snatching at a crust of bread. At Des Moines, in his native Iowa, he asked the graduating class of Drake University: "Will government permit you to breathe the pure air of liberty in the spirit of the Bill of Rights?" Then, whisk, and the Hoover motor car flashed into Illinois and up the driveway to Sinnissippi Farm...
...counties in 22 states burned crisp by Drought, remarked that a food shortage was not nearly so serious as a feed shortage. Last week the feed shortage had produced what looked very much like a food shortage. To be sure, there was enough wheat for bread, potatoes were plentiful and the fruit and vegetable crops were good. But for the first time in years consumption of beef and pork had practically overtaken supply...
...face Laval saw much the same calm, woodchuck cunning he sees in his own mirror. The two got along famously, two born listeners who knew what they were doing. Stalin was so pleased with Laval that he prolonged the conversation through luncheon, the first time he had ever broken bread with a Capitalist Foreign Minister. It was also the longest visit he had ever had with a foreign official...
...Archbishop Kinsley, who walked into St. Peter's directly behind the Pope and at the head of a long procession of ecclesiastics, and who later joined with other prelates in symbolically presenting the Pope bread, wine, water and cages of birds, the Holy Father's words were weighty with command. "We desire," said Pius XI to his 40,000 listeners, "that in your ardent prayers . . . you ask of the Lord that which is so dear to our heart, namely, that England, in the words of St. Paul, 'meditating the happy consummation that crowned the lives...
Mind's bread grow sweet...