Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Revolutionary Butter...
...done well by the strawberry trade, and the students quickly tired of the new regime. They crowded around the Steward's rooms and set up loud bleatings and baaings until the offending lamb was varied with other meats and vegetables. But the food continued poor in quality, and the "Butter Rebellion' 'was soon under way. Tutors were hissed day and night and indignation meetings were held in the holy precincts of Holden Chapel where it was resolved that "the Butter Stinketh to Heaven," and it was declared unfit even to lbricate cart-wheels...
...Harvard College" was the name for the first wooden building. It stood on the present site of Grays Hall, and its ground floor was largely taken up by the buttery, where the College bottles, not butter, were kept. All these early buildings down to and including Holworthy were called "Colleges," and up until the Civil War people used to speak of the "Colleges at Cambridge," when speaking of the buildings in the Yard. Here the first Commencement took place in 1642, which included, just as today, orations in Latin and English, elder statesmen and church dignitaries, and hoards of beaming...
...liaison agent, Secretary Newton chinned with his one time colleagues in Capitol lobbies, helped wangle through the Administration's measures, ran political errands and otherwise worked hard and well for his chief. But Secretary Newton was not a man of independent means and his job meant bread & butter to him. After the 1932 election, therefore, President Hoover had nominated him to be a Federal district judge. But a balky Senate had refused to confirm this or any other Hoover nomination...
...thus boost prices was to have been raised by a tax on processors of wheat, cotton, corn, rice, hogs, tobacco and dairy products. To be effective domestically such a tax had to be counterbalanced by special tariff increase. Thus if a 2? per Ib. tax was placed on butter, 2?would have to be added to the regular butter duty to prevent importers from underselling the U. S. market. But President Roosevelt had agreed without reservations to a general tariff truce, accepted last week by seven powers and offered to 58 more, as a preliminary to the World Economic Conference...