Word: food
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose it is legal enough," said he, "but I just don't like the idea of getting money from these workers for political purposes. What they need to do is spend their money on food and clothing and shelter...
...last fortnight, after 650 of the prison's 1,414 prisoners had yammered, clamored and "hunger-struck" against the prison food and discipline, six ringleaders were thrust into "The Klondike." Next day 13 more, and after that another six were thrust in, so that the men were jammed in two and three to a cell. Someone shut the windows. Someone turned off the water from the spigots. Someone turned on the steam heat...
Meanwhile, it was reported last week that: 1) the Commissariats for Food, Machine Building and Purchases had been purged and given new heads; 2) the Commissariats for the Navy, Trade and Agriculture are soon due for purging; 3) ten officials of the Azerbaijan Agriculture Commissariat were executed for "plotting to overthrow the Soviet Government and sabotage animal husbandry...
...late George Wesley Bellows was once sketching at Mouquin's, a Manhattan restaurant favored by society in his day. Bellows liked Mouquin's less for its food and company than for its mirrors. Hunched at the bar with a sketch pad concealed on his knee, he could use the other patrons as his unconscious models. On this occasion a furious little gentleman approached the artist and charged that Bellows was ogling his wife. Bellows was very peaceable but very tall. He rose, slowly. When he reached six feet the challenger blanched and turned away...
...free public trade schools to teach youngsters to fly an airplane, repair an automobile, refurbish a woman's face. But until last week there was no free public school for training workers to serve the nation with its prime necessity-food. Last week New York City's Board of Education announced that a week hence it would open the first Food Trades Vocational High School...