Word: breakfast
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week dumpy, soft-looking little Emperor Hirohito sampled the warfare on which his soldiers in China are fed. For breakfast he and his wife squatted before a low table on which rested a bowl of boiled rice and barley, and side dishes of powdered bean paste and pickled radishes. At lunch the menu read: millet gruel, side dishes of bean noodles, pork, boiled spinach and salty pickled plums. That evening the Emperor and Empress dined on boiled rice and barley again, had side dishes of dried fish, carrots and boiled lotus roots. One day of warfare was enough...
...Atlantic crossing on S. S. Normandie; breakfast, lunch and dinner served in secret accommodations on "C" deck; an extra day's stay aboard in Manhattan to avoid U. S. customs and immigration officials. Accused of having sold this sort of stowaway passage to countless European emigrants (nine of whom were uncovered after the Normandie's December 3 sailing was prevented by a crew strike), two French Line sailors this week found themselves in a Havre jail...
Will Keith Kellogg, 78, makes breakfast food for children, but he has more than a commercial interest in them. Eight years ago he established the W. K. Kellogg Foundation in Battle Creek, Mich., gave it $46,000,000 to improve children's health & happiness, soon decided to expand the Foundation's work so it could help grownups, too. By last week the people it had helped were helping themselves so enthusiastically that even Will Kellogg was astonished...
...Actually I am an exceedingly mild mannered person-a practitioner of peace, both domestic and foreign, a believer in the capitalistic system, and for my breakfast a devotee of scrambled eggs...
Last week, reversing the Circuit Court of Appeals at Philadelphia, which in April 1937 reversed a previous decision of its own, the Supreme Court of the U. S. settled the breakfast-food issue. Out of a solemn huddle came the Justices with a decision that the term "shredded wheat" did not belong solely to National Biscuit Co. Six-to-two (dissenters: Justices McReynolds and Butler), they found "shredded wheat" simply a generic term by which a "biscuit in pillow-shaped form is generally known to the public...