Word: pork
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...that he uttered these words, representatives of Western livestock and packing interests told the Food Administration that, as there is no shortage of food except in pork and its products, abstinence from wheat and beef involves an unnecessary sacrifice. If this be true, and if, as they say, stocks of beef and mutton are pilling up in cold storage, what better proof do we need of the President's statement? --New York World...
...Secretary of War Baker against the injustice being shown to many Bostonians in choosing Harvard men in preference to Bostonians, although the Harvard men might not reside here. We presume that Congress did not intend to divide appointments like it divides postoffice appropriations. The mayor's protest smells of pork. Did he make it for love of country, that better officers might lead our armies? Did he make it from some sudden, unaccountable, and overweening sense of justice...
...unfortunately we are not valued nearly so highly on that short sighted continent as we are in the United States of America. Unfortunately, Europe sees weaknesses in us that many others do not. She saw the Hay Bill pass Congress with its delectable slices of pork for our legislators; she saw the subsequent farcical failure of the Federalized militia; and she now sees us unarmed, save with the pen, proposing to set about her reconstruction...