Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...observe [that] within the last few days the price of bread has been advanced if a loaf practically throughout the United States...
...This, roughly estimated, means an increase of 12% or more in the cost of the bread loaf in the American home. It means taking vast sums of money in the way of pennies out of the homes of the poorer people for one of the necessities of life. It is another illustration of how powerful interests stealthily and persistently rob the common people...
...feel you are justified in going ahead and conducting your business as you have been conducting it and disregarding all instructions to raise the price of bread. If you choose to take this course and are prosecuted I will see that you get counsel without expense...
...contend that they have no right to direct you to increase the price of your bread. I not only contend they have no constitutional right but that it is indefensible in morals and economics...
Next day Glenns Ferryites again bought bread at Borah prices, 9¢ a loaf, and NRA had to decide whether it would take on Senator Borah as a court adversary. Little appetite has the New Deal for trying conclusions with political champions. Senator Glass of Virginia, for instance, would love nothing better than to battle NRA or the Labor Board if either tried to interfere with the operation of his Lynchburg News...