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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean Donham's Business School will henceforth be a "school of public and private business." Last week it enrolled its initial batch of public business students in a special session which begins at midyear. The first regular class enters next autumn. Public business students live, study, eat, go to many of their classes with future vice presidents of business houses. When they, get through they will be fitted for jobs with such governmental business ventures as the Tennessee Valley Authority, such financial agencies as the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, such regulatory bodies as the Interstate Commerce Commission...
Only one official meal does the President of the U. S. have to eat outside the White House this season-a formal dinner given by the Vice President. Last week President & Mrs. Roosevelt ate their obligatory meal. Three days later the President let it be known that, as far as he was concerned, the Democratic candidate for Vice President in 1936 was going to be John Nance Garner...
...even Communists deny, Russia's present acute meat shortage is due to Dictator Stalin's policy of "ruthless collectivization" which caused millions of peasants to slaughter and eat their cattle before they were forced to join collective farms and "share everything" (TIME, July 14, 1930). Over a third of all Soviet cattle were thus massacred or exported before Stalin realized his mistake, eased his pressure. Today, because pigs multiply faster than cattle, Soviet collectives are frantically breeding swine. Last week President Kalinin's nearest approach to admitting Dictator Stalin's mistake came when he observed...
...brought delegates of the Moscow Province Soviet cheering and stamping to their feet last week with one of his characteristic speeches in homely peasant argot. "Less bread will be eaten when we have more pigs," began the hovel-born President wisely. "Those who do not care for pork will eat potatoes with genuine Russian butter [cheers] or, if they do not like butter, with genuine lard [huzzahs]. When we have enough of these products we will flood Russia with them! And moreover, when we have a superfluity of good things the whole world will kowtow to Russia...
...That," said Dr. Edward Elway Free, chemist, physicist, consultant, lecturer, "is just a few young weevils trying to eat their way out of these wheat kernels here. Perhaps we can quiet them a little...