Word: prunes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York City some 1,100,000 children registered and entered school. For them the Board of Education has approved a budget of 130-odd million dollars, $2,000,000 higher than last year despite Mayor John Patrick O'Brien's requests to prune. The Board plans to fill two vacant superintendencies despite his orders not to. ¶ In North Carolina rural youngsters learned they might have to go to school six days a week, the Legislature having raised the State-supported school term (by which every school board gets a minimum grant) from six months to eight...
...Breaking his custom of lunching from a tray at his office desk. President Roosevelt went to the White House dining room one noon last week to eat a 7-) cent meal. The menu: stuffed hard-boiled eggs with tomato sauce, mashed potatoes, bread, prune pudding, coffee. He cleaned his plate. The luncheon was Mrs. Roosevelt's experiment with White House economy, to be served only to members of the family...
Such wholesale propaganda ought to be productive of results, although the methods have been subject to abuse by commercial interests. National Prune Week, Drink More Sauerkraut Juice Week, Mothers Day, Dads Day and other similar phenomena can all be traced to high pressure advertising. The hypocritical effusions of florists, telegraph companies, and haberdashers on such occasions are obvious enough in their intent to all but the softer minded and more naive devotees of Edgar Guest and other purveyors of mental pap. In a similar manner one might justifiably suspect that the backers of American Education are not altogether altruistic...
Oregon. Republican Senator Charles Linza McNary was obliged to leave his prune ranch, get out and hustle for reelection...