Word: crumbs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Opposition [cheers]. More notably, His Majesty's Britannic Government had spread the Hoover generosity around the globe by offering to His Majesty's Indian and the Dominion Governments the same concessions which His Majesty's Britannic Government received [cheers]. Lazy, bankrupt Australia snatched the crumb. Proud, His Majesty's Government in the Union of South Africa said: "We have informed His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom that South Africa will not take advantage of the offer of the Mother Country to forego payments which we owe on our War debt." [Loud cheers.] Benito...
Only small crumb of comfort the husbandmen had last week: announcements that Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery, Ward were reducing mail-order prices from...
...Administration for the kind of farm relief it was supplying continued to grow at such a rate that President Hoover was seriously advised by G. O. P. leaders to give up his summer trip into that disaffected territory lest unseemly scenes along his route cause him public embarrassment. Only crumb of comfort for the Administration and the Board: in his daily syndicated message Calvin Coolidge said: "It would certainly be fair and probably wise to defer judgment on the reported actions of the Federal Farm Board until the results are fully matured and they are in a position to reveal...