Word: breads
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Rejected the Fess Bill for farm relief, 54 to 26. Passed minor Co-operative Marketing Bill. (See below). ¶ Ordered the Judiciary Committee to inquire into the handling of the "bread trust" cases by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. Senator La Follette, son of the late Robert M. ("Fighting Bob") La Follette, has taken up this matter as his first national fight. ¶ Passed the last appropriation bill, the second general deficiency, carrying a total of $44,000,000 with the House approving it the same...
...Bread and Butter...
Your paper, TIME, is the best "news" paper I ever saw. As soon as I can spare a $5 from our "bread and butter" needs I will subscribe...
...period else how should they have been accepted? I dare say there were many prim and proper people living in the 18th century, but every memoir of the time is abundant proof of the licentiousness which was rife in the beau monde. Naturally I did not choose a conventional bread-and-butter miss as my heroine...
...years ago a Toronto writer faked a story of the discovery by two Swedish scientists, Drs. Smierkase and Butterbrod, of the skeleton of a fish large enough to have swallowed Jonah. Toronto papers refused the yarn, for "Smierkase" and "Butterbrod" too transparently mean "soft cheese" and "butter bread." However, at the Fundamentalist convention, the clever writer found his opportunity, sent the manuscript without comment to a Dr. Brown, who based his main argument for the authenticity of the Jonah story on this "discovery." Toronto papers this time reported Dr. Brown and his "proof." Then they were told of the hoax...