Word: lunching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ballots, which had to be signed, read simply "Do you want an election of Class Officers?" and the voting was held in the Union during lunch and supper...
...Most appeasing of all, Secretary Morgenthau announced after a lunch at the White House that President Roosevelt had dropped his plan to ask Congress for an increase in the U. S. statutory debt limit, from...
...feed some 1,900 skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner of fish and chips, tea, bread and milk. Result: 1,400 have passed the Army tests. Another, unwanted, result: Laborites are asking why undernourished women and children cannot also be fed back...
...then described her working day and told what improvements she feels her union has brought. Waitresses have three periods of work: the breakfast time from 7:45 to 10:15 o'clock; lunch period from 13 to 2:15 o'clock; and dinner from 5 to 7:45 o'clock. They spend their time off in the mornings and afternoons playing bridge and sewing in the recreation rooms or resting in their own homes...
...Mexico City, a Government order reduced the lunch-and-siesta period for Government employes from four hours to three...