Word: bread
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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More effective than the praise which professional Prohibitors heap upon the job that gives them their daily bread, was a temperate, well-seasoned statement filed by Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist. Professor Fisher adroitly admitted most of the facts against which Wets have complained but insisted that even these facts do not outbalance the larger benefits of Prohibition. He charted the rise and fall of Prohibition as follows...
Persecutions. In Moscow one definite act of persecution was committed last week by the Soviet Government: Jews were deprived of their Matzoth or "Passover Bread" by an order forbidding its sale...
...Bread cast on the waters of the Manhattan Call Money Market has long since ceased to come back tenfold. Last week call money hit a low of 2% and an average of 3%, compared to a low of 7% and an average of 9% for the corresponding week of 1929. Easy money contributed to an increased activity in both the bond market and the stockmarket, bond sales on the Stock Exchange going to $115,372,500 against $77,834,600 for the previous week and only $50,589,000 for the week a year ago. It was the best bond...
...They confide in me the misery of solitary confinement sentences, when they are fed on nothing but bread and water. I have complained repeatedly to Superintendent Boyd. I do not believe he sanctions these inhuman acts. But nothing is done. I expect to lose my job but it will be worth while if the school can be cleaned...
...ushers in Public theatres, two in R-K-O theatres, and one of the Fox company, wake at, six each morning after six hours sleep and eat. Our daily bill of fare never changes: two dozen eggs, three quarts of milk, two cans of soup, and a loaf of bread. We run fifty miles each day, sleeping never on a bed and generally in an R-K-O theatre. At noon and at ten in the evening we have an hour for recreation when we are allowed to sit. The theatre men keep watch on us all the time...