Word: butter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Franklin Roosevelt's kin often get themselves into the newspapers. One who did so last week was the President's lusty second son, Elliott, who runs his second wife's radio station (KFJZ) at Fort Worth, and knows which side of his bread bears Texas butter. In one of his semiweekly personal broadcasts he said: "John Garner is in the driver's seat right now, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the Presidency...
...Army officials last week reported the successful results of an experiment to feed some 1,900 skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army tests. Another, unwanted, result: Laborites...
...following: "Miss Cornelia Vander Zander is crocheting an oval rag rug to put her bare feet on these cold mornings when she steps out of bed. . . . Hooray, hooray, Donna Read is married at last. Her mother couldn't stop her this time. . . . McKinley Schumpf ate too much peanut butter Wednesday and was out of school Thursday with a stomach ache. . . . Murilyn Estes uses her white shoes for an autograph al bum and likes to have all her friends sign their names along with little rhymes of poetry, such as : 'I dip my pen in ink and hope your...
Richer or poorer, Dr. Funk's country was last week certainly getting hungrier. Butter, cream, other fats, some meats are rationed in Germany. Eggs, common vegetables often disappear from market. Non-nutritive but ingenious excuses are left in their place by the Propaganda Ministry. A recent onion shortage was blamed on an "onion corner" by "international Jewry." Last week Germany was being given excuses instead of coffee...
...creators, the Hummerts save lots of money. Most serial writers in radio command $200 to $400 a week. For The Goldbergs, Gertrude Berg gets about $2,000. The Hummerts pay a minimum $25 per 15-minute script. Since most Hummert ghosts are glad to add caviar to bread-&-butter from other jobs, they have seldom squawked...