Word: corning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British tariffs. In 1815 this preference became so potent that riotous London workmen chalked the town with their slogan: "Bread or Blood!" Symbolic, a loaf of blood-soaked bread was pitched among Tory landlord M. P.s who upheld the British tariffs (chiefly agricultural) of the day, called the "Corn Laws...
...blatant Anti-Corn Law Association led by Propagandist Richard Cobden so alarmed the Tories that Tory Sir Robert Peel was put in as Prime Minister especially to guard their interests. His enlightened "betrayal" of his landlord friends ranks with James Ramsay Mac-Donald's high-minded "treachery" to British Labor (TIME, Sept. 7). In his budgets of 1842, 1845 and 1846, Pioneer Sir Robert whittled away the "Corn Laws," reduced the prohibitory British tariffs on cattle, pigs, meat, cheese and butter. He even lowered the duty on imported stage-coaches...
...Hougfiton Mifflin ($1.75). Excerpt: "America . . . A Mad Country ... In a country boasting millions of machines, storerooms are bursting with goods; corn is burned in place of coal; milk is poured into the river. . . . What does this mean? Have people lost their senses, or what is the matter? . . . Why is this done? Who profits...
...profitable to the Foxes and the Boxes. Mr. Fox burns a few trainloads of grain in order to raise the price of corn. Mr. Box gives orders to spill tens of thousands of bottles of milk into the river in order that milk may not be sold too cheaply...
...time were all the guests incapacitated or otherwise absent, Penrose never left the ball room, the center of the merry-making." Typical Penrose meal: "A dozen raw oysters, chicken gumbo, a terrapin stew, two canvasback ducks, mashed potatoes, lima beans, macaroni, asparagus, cole slaw and stewed corn, one hot mince pie and a quart of coffee. All of which he stowed away while he drank a bottle of sauterne, a quart of champagne, and several cognacs...