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...them together and fry in plenty of shortening, stirring constantly until thick. Then dilute with chicken or turkey broth to the consistency of cream soup. Pour all this over slices of boiled turkey, bring the entire dish to a boil for five minutes, serve sprinkled with sesame seed. Sop the sauce with tortillas. Be sure to serve plenty of napkins...
Schlesinger described the Wallace Plan as a "sop for soft, fuzzy-minded liberals, the kind Roosevelt called the "yes,--but boys," in reply to Allen's statement that "principles are principles...
Rate-Boost. U.S. railroads, out for higher rates all around, got a sop from the ICC. It granted the roads a 25% temporary increase in mail rates. The increase, estimated to yield the railroads more than $32,000,000 a year, will remain in effect until ICC acts on their request for a permanent 45% hike in mail...
...Solution." Eccles had his own remedies ready. One way to cure the disease, he said, was to reduce the money supply and thereby cut demand. He proposed: voluntary wage ceilings, lower profits (and lower prices), an end to Government support of farm prices (unless price ceilings were restored). To sop up excess credit, he wanted the Government to keep high tax rates and whittle the federal debt. To check the flow of new credit he wanted to raise the banks' reserve requirements and force interest rates...
Paralyzed but undaunted, the Watch and Ward is planning to plug up the loophole in Boston's moral strait-jacket by introducing legislation restraining the newspapers. The Hearst syndicate counters neatly by a campaign against obscene literature to prove that it is on the right side. For this sop they are told to "clean their own house" and the battle goes merrily on while the newspapers' circulation climbs. Whatever the reason for the inability of sober-minded Boston to cope with the greatest lack in its society, the opposing factions seem to have split the pie. Bostonians now get murder...