Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Washington, D. C., delegation was temporarily held in jail in Bedford, Pa. Thomas Mooney, an honorary member of the managing committee, was in jail in San Quentin, Calif. Keynoter Earl Browden of New York announced that the war-cry of the Communists' presidential campaign would be: "Jobs, Bread and Peace." Said...
Potted Stilton cheese and West Riding riddle bread...
...cargo of children from the shanties of striking Pennsylvania miners to Pittsburg, where they intended to beg what little they might get to supplement the Union's vanishing reserves. They were scantily clad in incongruous cast-offs, and their only food for the day was a slice of bread soaked in unpalatable coffee, but they sang with a verve derogatory ditties about the police and patriots. The pinch of hunger had wizened their faces and made them look four or five years older than they were, but it had left their spirits free for the hatreds which the organizers chose...
Hunt & Hoax. Meantime, while Congress prayed that the Lindberghs be further spared "the bread of affliction" and nations and cities all over the world poured sympathy on the bereaved young couple, the country's law agencies took a final hitch in their belts and started on a desperate, determined man hunt. Five days' hunting brought to light the second major hoax in the case...
Still rationed (purchasable only on presentation of a card) are bread, flour, meat, oil, gruel, sugar and Russia's beloved butter & herring. Men's clothing was not taken off the ration list, but the ration per man per year was increased...