Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Daily Bread (Viking). For the average Hollywood producer, Depression furnished a number of tedious gags, a few new turns for old plots. But it failed to invest the cinema with much New Deal sentiment, much sense of economic ferment. This fact has long rankled in the impatient mind of thick-lipped, shock-haired King Vidor...
...large capitalists through Reconstruction Finance Corporation Loans with the hope that they will seep down to the Forgotten Man. But instead his savings are steadily being drained out of his fast-shrinking pocketbook, in an attempt to revive Big Business. Thus far this attempt has proved unsuccessful. The very bread he eats three times a day is being taxed. The Forgotten Man must be remembered...
...Administration passes a law making it possible to convict a man for selling a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread combined for the dictated price of the milk alone...
...Federal Relief Administrator Harry Hopkins is helping to support some 16,000,000 men, women and children who cannot support themselves by private labor. Tomorrow Administrator Hopkins may find himself supporting millions more who have deliberately thrown up good jobs to let the Federal Government give them their daily bread...
...this work is to be found the triple bread line: Rye. White. Whole Wheat. Two melancholy goats ask. "What do people do with their garbage nowadays?" Political note: An unmistakable plutocrat with cigar and limousine appears above the caption: "The manufacturer of shirts of various colors." A fleeing burglar carrying an undersized parcel of swag is hailed as an encouraging omen...