Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Infection Centre. To date Georgians have struck no blow against what shocked Under Secretary of Agriculture Rexford Guy Tugwell has called their state of "bootleg slavery." Not so the lean tenant farmers of Arkansas, whose memorable bread-riot at England, Ark., four years ago (TIME, Jan. 12, 1931) made the country sit up and take notice...
...More Spring (Fox) deals with three Manhattan victims of Depression who, instead of resorting to the bread lines, take up their residence in a Central Park tool shed. One is a furniture dealer (Warner Baxter) whose sole reminder of previous affluence is a gigantic antique bed. One is a violinist (Walter King), who finds himself humiliated in his efforts to practice in public by kindly passersby who mistake him for a street musician. The third is a demure actress (Janet Gaynor) who meets the furniture dealer when both are trying to filch a supper from the open kitchen windows...
...striking success of the collective farm movement has been demonstrated at the second congress of 1,500 'shock-brigade collectivists' from all parts of the U. S. S. R., which has just ended its session in Moscow. . . . [TIME, Feb. 25.] As the recent abolition of the bread-card system denotes, there are ample stocks for seed and food, if needed, in the hands of the authorities. Quite recently, however, there has been a fresh outburst of 'starvation propaganda' in the German and Austrian Press, with appeals for charity for 'the unhappy victims of the Soviet...
...radio applecart, buys its news from an upstart independent outfit named Transradio Press Service (TIME, Oct. 29). Last week Transradio celebrated its first birthday by announcing new customers in Newark, N. J., Louisville, Ky., Richmond, Va., and, most important, its first "national" sponsor, Continental Baking Co.'s "Wonder Bread." The Wonder Bread news programs begin this week in Detroit, Columbus, Akron, Dayton, Toledo...
...that he should reach for such bromides as the share-the-Wealth plan or the Townsend plan. No amount of explaining that, for instance, the economic system cannot possibly raise such tremendous annual sums as Townsend offers the old duffers, will destroy for the average man the illusion that bread is being taken out of his mouth. He remains an ardent advocate of the plan in the expectation that he will have some day $200 a month himself...