Word: brenner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...payola," Russia has its own Aaron Brenner, chief of Moscow's Bus Depot No. 7. Brenner auctioned off the best routes to drivers, charged them 150 rubles when their buses needed new motors, 200 for a new bus, 500 rubles hush money whenever they had an accident. Not satisfied with all this, he falsified his books, and before the government got on to him, bilked the state of some 700,000 rubles in a single year...
...Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Rookie Cop Ernie Brenner (James Broderick) makes an unsettling discovery: sometimes a lawman has to stand up and fight back against the guys who are supposed to be on his side...
...July 25 Brenner (CBS, 9-9:30 p.m.). Detective Lieut. Roy Brenner (Edward Binns), backed by a galpal (Lee Grant), tracks a bookie ring that uses kids as collectors...
Last week Austrian newspapers were filled with black crisis headlines-but not the crisis most of Europe was worrying about. The headlines said: BRENNER PASS...
...majority in the South Tyrol. Forty years ago, in disregard of Woodrow Wilson's principle of ethnic frontiers, but honoring the secret 1915 promise that drew Italy into the war on the side of the Triple Entente (Britain, France and Russia), the victorious Allies awarded Italy the strategic Brenner Pass and a slice of Austrian Alpine territory the size of Connecticut leading up to it. The Italians changed the name of the region to Alto Adige, Italianized town and street names. Benito Mussolini's eager henchmen even substituted "Giovanni" for "Johannes" on tombstones...