Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...State-claiming announcement that included even Texas. Mrs. Ruth Hanna McCormick, Republican candidate for Congressman-at-large, diverted some attention with a barbecue at her farm northwest of Chicago, at which 10,000 Republicans consumed six tons of beef and pork, 200 barrels of potatoes, five truckloads of bread. But it was a prime moment for the Brown Derby to be in the heart of the Midlands. Just before he got there, the Salt Creek oil scandal had broken, involving National G. O. P. Chairman Work and Attorney General Sargent with Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair and politics...
...little boys walked on either side, one bearing a basket of bread, the other a basket of coal. At each home in the little street, first on one side, next on the other, front doors opened at the click of the silver key. Then Lady Byng flung into the hallway of each house; first a loaf of fine white bread and next a large and sooty piece of coal...
Already she has had rushed to completion the new little street of four-room cottages in Thorpe-le-Soken. She proposes to rent them to needy and worthy tenants for only "four and six" a week (4 shillings, 6 pence = $1.09). The ceremony of throwing bread and coals revived an old Essex custom equivalent to "house warming." The flung loaves and chunks are supposed to bring luck and prevent occupants of the new house from ever being without food, warmth...
...largest U. S. producers of soft coal,") declared for Smith and said: "The present administration has not disguised its hostility to West Virginia's basic interest." He mentioned that West Virginia voted for Coolidge in 1924 instead of its native John William Davis. "The State has received not bread, but a stone." The National Council of the Steuben Society of America recommended Nominee Smith to the Society's units and members (Some 3,500,000 German-Americans). Dr. Arthur Twining Hadley, President-Emeritus of Yale University, wrote a testimonial: ". . . The object of the 18th Amendment was to stop...
Toward New York, last week, plowed the black Italian freighter Tagliamento, laden with a cargo of white Carrara marble. In the yards of C. D. Jackson Co., Manhattan stone importers, marblemen waited its arrival. For nine months, not a shipload of Carrara had left Italy. What was once the bread-and-butter of all marbles had become a U. S. rarity...