Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gold content below the 50% limit set last year. "I think it might help. Prices must go higher. I agree with the President on that." And less than an hour later. Cornell's Professor George Frederick ("Commodity Dollar") Warren, appeared at the White House to break bread with the President for the first time in many a month...
Then Belgrade. At the railway station were the members of the Regency, the Mayor of Belgrade with the traditional salver of bread & salt, Deputies, generals, priests, rabbis, ladies-in-waiting. There, too, was a guard of honor, stiffly at attention, with the national colors draped in black. Little King Peter knew what he must do. Loudly his childish treble piped out: "May God help, heroes!" Back came the bass roar of the Guards: ''God keep...
Paramount and Fenway: "Our Dally Bread"--King Vidor's bold and excellent interpretation of the current of things social and economic. Depicts the back-to-the-farm movement in a moving and vivid style. Also "Kansas City Princess"--Joan Blondell and Glenda Farrel in another of their mildly amusing and risque pictures...
Lacking King Carol, the other two Kings made a splendid show. At the Sofia station were Tsar Boris and his Italian Queen, Ioanna. and the flustered Mayor of Sofia holding a solid gold salver with the traditional offering of bread & salt. Everyone kissed everyone else. For two days there were parades and banquets, tea parties and reviews, and between times weighty conferences between the two Kings, their Foreign Ministers, interspersed with busy telephone calls to King Carol in Bucharest. No official resumes were given out, but every Balkan correspondent knew what the Kings were talking about...
...which there can be no political reason as the Democratic flood continues unabated. Power is a headler potion than alcohol and morning after headaches more certain and severe. To the philosophic observer his recent remarks savor of disillusion as one who reluctantly must lay aside cherished dreams to achieve bread and butter. Perhaps it is realized that the Brain Trusters' panaceas may precipitate an industrial crash that will beggar the recent banking collapse unless the New Dealers secure the cooperation and help of practical business men. Platitudes and generalities will no longer suffice. Action not words is needed...