Word: sugarless
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Jury, with the implication that a Grand Jury investigation into the sugar market was projected, although aimed at individuals rather than at the Sugar Exchange. The agitation in political circles was maintained with remarkable persistence. Mrs. Harding expressed her sympathy; Mayor Hylan in a characteristic proclamation called for a "sugarless Monday," and a general campaign of sugar saving; monstrous petitions were threatened. Meanwhile the price of raw sugar futures has again exhibited strength, although refiners have followed varying policies in fixing the price on refined sugar. Thus far the agitation against sugar prices has not had an important effect upon...
...heedless of the aphorism that "fools rush in where angels fear to tread". In a proclamation on Saturday the Mayor declared that "the government has failed to help us. Let us help ourselves", and called "on all good citizens in their homes to observe Monday of each week as 'Sugarless Monday...