Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gloom, almost in despair, Novelist Louis Bromfield wrote last summer from his 1,500-acre farm near Mansfield, Ohio, "Though ours is the richest agricultural nation, our people are not going to have enough food. If it were possible, I would rather not think about next February." Last week Louis Bromfield survived the first week in "famine February" by eating well. So did the U.S. And War Food Administrator Marvin Jones, pooh-poohing Bromfield's prophecies, cheerfully boasted of surplus potatoes, eggs and canned goods...
...Bromfield as the sensational prophet last summer was hewing at the right tree, while Jones, the optimist, had lost sight of the forest. To eat well, the U.S. was drawing heavily on its food reserves carried over from years of abundance and underconsumption. But the stockpile of grains, the basic food, is getting dangerously small. And at week's end Louis Bromfield, prophet of famine, stubbornly set his alarm clock ahead, this time for April...
...Gannett, who opened a National Food Conference which he said he had called at the request of Agriculture Department heads of 16 states. The program was perhaps the most concentrated collection of New Deal denouncers possible to imagine, including Adman Lou Maxon, late of OPA, bang-browed Author Louis Bromfield, Texas' W. Lee ("Pappy") O'Daniel, South Carolina's Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith...
Last week, up spoke Louis Bromfield, novelist and Ohio farmer...
...Carl . . . was The-Book-of-the-Munch-Club . . . the giver-away of a mahogany Britannica with every subscription." He gave Munch-Club readers: "Elizabeth and Sex by Lytton Scratchy, John Brown's Benny by Steve Brody, The Bridge of San Louis Bromfield by Ray Long, A Farewell to Farms by Mark van Doorman, How to be Happy: A Preface to Morons by Walter B. Pipkin, Pfui D., Tristram Coffin, a finespun obituary by Edwinson Arlington Cemetry, Black Majesty by Dark van Moron, The Life of Joseph Wood Peacock by his uncle Doc van Doren, and Training the Giant Pander...