Word: panem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like the panem at circenses which the government has provided for the public in ringmaster Pecora and his fawning troupe of agile performers, J. P. Morgan and Kuhn, Leeb, the World Economic Conference has accomplished nothing and, though far more significant, is much less entertaining. The present impasse points to the fact that the Conference will see nothing more constructive done than the Geneva disarmament committees, which are already doomed by air incongrous plan emanating from Washington to give the United States the largest navy in the world. It is such contrary turns that bewilder the people about the real...
Bread & Gas. Panem et circenses, bread and circuses, were the prime requisites of happiness for the plebs of ancient Rome. Bread and gasoline are prime popular requisites today. Last week no wise Emperor but two ferocious price wars made bread and gas fantastically cheap in San Francisco-three loaves for 10? and 7? a gallon...