Word: meal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Organized labor asked for the repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. The Democratic platform likewise called for repeal. It seems likely that the law will be technically repealed. Its seventy pages are almost too complex to review piece-meal. Yet the new labor law will hardly be the old Wagner Act. Many of the less objectionable features of the Taft-Hartley law will no doubt be found...
Accompanying a recipe for Rhode Island Johnny Cake was the notation that "it was once called journey cake, I am told, because travelers mixed the corn meal with water or snow (we prefer the local white corn meal). But let me warn you that the shade of my Great Aunt Adeline, from whom I originally got the recipe, will surely haunt you if you put anything but butter on this mouth-watering concoction. Syrup and such will overcome the delicate flavor...
...been called upon to deny reports that he would retire because of failing health (his last appearance in the Senate was May 27), wandered off his son's estate in East Islip, L.I. While police sent out an eight-state "missing" alarm, he gave an I.O.U. for a meal at a restaurant, borrowed $5 for train fare to Manhattan, was finally picked up in a Lexington Avenue restaurant. His doctor's diagnosis: temporary amnesia...
Lunch at home with his wife is a leisurely, almost time-wasting meal, in a spacious dining room from whose walls handsome young Lieut. Lee looks down. At 2 :30 sharp he is in bed. At 3 (he wakes himself almost on the dot) he begins his "second day." From his attic bedroom he steps into his study for 2½ solid hours of work on Washington. Here visitors, and even his family, are forbidden. On the walls are autographed pictures of his friends Winston Churchill and Admiral Nimitz, a letter from President Roosevelt thanking Freeman for suggesting the term...
While Union chow lines have been decimated by this move, House men report a considerable increase in their waiting time. Comparison of meal counts for October 6 this year and last reveals an approximate increase of nine percent in the number of meals served in the House...