Word: loafing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Administration passes a law making it possible to convict a man for selling a bottle of milk and a loaf of bread combined for the dictated price of the milk alone...
...fair competition has now been instituted; when will a home and home agreement be arranged? It is possible that after the game members of the visiting teams might become confused and forget to leave, but exchange scholars are smiled upon in all universities. A little leavening with the loaf is not a bad idea, and a touch of Middle Western initiative and drive transferred to the soporific Cambridge atmosphere would be eminently helpful, while the Harvard enunciation and pronunciation would of course be splendid in dear old Joliet...
...observe [that] within the last few days the price of bread has been advanced if a loaf practically throughout the United States...
...This, roughly estimated, means an increase of 12% or more in the cost of the bread loaf in the American home. It means taking vast sums of money in the way of pennies out of the homes of the poorer people for one of the necessities of life. It is another illustration of how powerful interests stealthily and persistently rob the common people...
Next day Glenns Ferryites again bought bread at Borah prices, 9¢ a loaf, and NRA had to decide whether it would take on Senator Borah as a court adversary. Little appetite has the New Deal for trying conclusions with political champions. Senator Glass of Virginia, for instance, would love nothing better than to battle NRA or the Labor Board if either tried to interfere with the operation of his Lynchburg News...