Word: buckwheat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trust that a sufficient number of Senators who have not been seduced to political apostasy by the family sap bucket, or gorged into stupefaction by buckwheat cakes and Vermont maple syrup, or lulled to moral insensibility by the melody of waves breaking against the prow of the Mayflower- I trust there are enough left to vote against delivering the Department of Justice into the hands of the Sugar Trust...
...Judge Elbert H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a sub-committee of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 break fasted off the White House table on buckwheat cakes and sausages, urged Mr. Coolidge that the Volstead Act must be enforced by precept and example...
...hurt my feelings when I was barred from the broad breakfast table at the White House, where we were served buckwheat from Ohio, with maple syrup from Vermont and sausages from Maryland or the Chicago stockyards, I don't know which...
...Representatives of 44 advertising agencies, all members of the Coolidge and Dawes Advertising League Club, had cereal, bacon and eggs, buckwheat cakes, maple syrup and coffee in the state dining room of the White House with Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge. The advertising men were escorted by Colonel Rhinelander Waldo, the same who brought John Drew and other actors to the White House a week earlier. Said the President: "I can only promise you to continue those policies that have helped to make for prosperity and confidence...
...charge the President of the United States with having become a lobbyist. As such, his activities are being carried on at the breakfast table of the White House, where his power ful and penetrating propaganda is being delivered to Members of the Congress who have been previously feasted on buckwheat cakes saturated with New England maple syrup. "Since Eve was tempted by the serpent with the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden, never has there been offered to weak and erring humanity such an irresistible temptation as buck wheat cakes and syrup, sweeter than the honey of the Hybla...