Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Politics & the Poor. Senator Long was born poor 39 years ago on a farm in northern Louisiana. When he married Rose McConnell, winner of a baking contest he staged as salesman, he borrowed from her $10 to pay the preacher. For days he has subsisted on bread & water. He knows the sting of poverty and now, for all his loud silk pajamas, $100 suits and jeweled finery, he has politically never allowed himself to forget it. His entire public appeal is as what he once was?a poor hillbilly. For years Louisiana has been familiar with his ranting campaigns against...
...lived to maturity. They were very shy, would not feed while any human was near. For five weeks Lord Grey tried to tame them. "Late on summer evenings when I could get the canvasbacks by themselves I knelt, leaning over the edge of the bank, throwing small pieces of bread. ... In this way, evening by evening, I drew them nearer till at length in the dusk one evening a young canvasback snatched a piece of bread from my fingers. Then the frost of suspicion and fear began to thaw. I continued my coaxing and in a few days three...
...tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. He panders, indeed, to greedy capital which is keen-sighted and may shift for itself; but he beggars labor which is honest, unsuspecting and too busy with the present to calculate for the future. The prosperity of the working classes lives, moves and has its being in established credit and a steady medium of payment...
...captured Etropol in the war with Turkey. His father. Duke Constantine, gave much of the family fortune to schools and hospitals. With his wife, Princess Eugenia, granddaughter of Tsar Nicholas I, Prince Alexander established National House in St. Petersburg where the poor were treated to bread and circuses. During the War he was director of sanitary services in the Imperial Army, escaped to Biarritz at the outbreak of the 1917 revolution...
...doings as four all-Russian programs, the Hall Johnson Choir, the Albertina Rasch dancers, an all-Gershwin concert?all with the practiced versatility which has made him, if not the most exciting of maestros, a thoroughly dependable musician, one to be envied by many another less sure of his bread & butter...