Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sportiest, saltiest vacation the country had ever watched its President take. He dressed in old flannel trousers and a grey sweater under oil skins. He did not bother too much about shaving. Sun and spray tanned his face, widened his grin. He smacked over codfish balls, baked beans, brown bread. And even the crustiest old Down Easterners had to admit that he was a crackerjack seaman under full sail...
...failed to discipline itself, I see no escape from some direction and control by the lady in the parlor, but I am not willing to turn the kitchen over to the lovely lady who talks so easily and so gracefully until I know she is competent to bake the bread...
...Dictator Stalin decreed that every one look sharp, work strenuously to turn in his grain on time, under penalty of trial for criminal neglect. Suspended until after grain collection-time are all sales of grain and bread in the open market...
Already French law compels millers to use 100% French wheat in making flour, and the farmer is further protected by French tariffs and quotas raised against the world's great wheat growing states (see p. 17). With bread prices bound to rise, French papers bristled last week with indignant plaints headed THE DEAR LIFE (La Vie Chére). On the Riviera rich Bruce Bundy of Los Angeles announced a plan to form an island colony "as a refuge from high French prices and the depreciated dollar." Socialite colonists would purchase all their necessary luxuries on a co-operative...
...liaison agent, Secretary Newton chinned with his one time colleagues in Capitol lobbies, helped wangle through the Administration's measures, ran political errands and otherwise worked hard and well for his chief. But Secretary Newton was not a man of independent means and his job meant bread & butter to him. After the 1932 election, therefore, President Hoover had nominated him to be a Federal district judge. But a balky Senate had refused to confirm this or any other Hoover nomination...