Word: tableted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Danger was that the Governor might trot out his own candidate, and that man might be the best vote-getter in sight. The Mayor finally, reluctantly told reporters that Mr. Moore would not run, because of his health. (You could have knocked hale A. Harry over with an aspirin tablet when reporters told him he was ill.) As Moore was thus given the Jersey bounce. Governor Edison announced his support of Newark's Mayor Vincent J. Murphy, who, as secretary of the New Jersey A.F. of L., is acceptable to labor. Two hours later, Frank Hague, breathing hard, boarded...
Thus wrote New York City's Judge Herbert A. O'Brien (of Domestic Relations court) in the Tablet, official weekly of Brooklyn's Roman Catholic diocese. Anglophobe O'Brien, who supported Father Coughlin, and once told a Congressional committee hearing that passage of the Lend-Lease act would cause "civil war" in the U.S., had just read that the R.A.F. had bombed two Rome suburbs...
Some of the Tablet's readers took the instruction. By last week's end Senator Tom Connally, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations committee, had received "from 50-100 letters," mostly from New York and Long Island. Their burden : Rome must never be bombed; even near by attacks must cease...
Judge O'Brien and his Tablet readers were not likely to have much effect. Rome and suburbs are studded with legitimate bombing targets-industrial plants, military camps, shipyards. Besides, the most recently received letters were beginning to show disagreement with the Judge. These writers, also Tablet readers, suggested that the Senator refer the protesting letters to the Bishop of Coventry and other clerics whose historical churches were blown to bits by the Luftwaffe...
...production is still only a drop in what seems likely to become a vast dry-pressed bucket. After the last war poorly processed dried foods collapsed like a dehydrated potato. This time, better processing, the economics of more food for less money, and great world need all favor the tablet-food industry...