Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Already this year one more odd piece of canvas has been added to the New Deal's present makeshift policy. To meet the threat of a 16,000,000-bale cotton crop, which knocked the price from 15? to 8? per lb., the New Deal broke out a well-worn storm sail in the form of loans to cotton growers (TIME, Aug. 23). Hastily arranged just before Congress adjourned, the cotton-loan program was financed by Jesse Jones's RFC through the Commodity Credit Corp...
Trouble between Messrs. Browning and Crump has long been brewing. The Crump organization that helped elect Governor Browning last year had previously, in 1934, helped defeat him for the U. S. Senate. Once in the Governor's seat, Gordon Browning promptly broke with his political benefactor by appointing Boss Crump's longtime adversary, Lewis S. Pope, special tax investigator. Opening blast in the current squabble between Boss and Governor was fired by Boss Crump. Said he when he first heard about the unit plan: "The Sneak has the insane desire to go to the United States Senate...
...King & Queen, the Duke & Duchess of Gloucester and the Duke & Duchess of Kent were out in various parts of the United Kingdom taking an interest in housing and public welfare. After several days of such exertions, the Duke of Kent, who was about to inspect the Cardiff Royal Infirmary, broke down and gasped, I'm all in!" His Royal Highness, too exhausted to greet members of the infirmary staff with Her Royal Highness, was limousined away to rest. The Duke & Duchess of Gloucester indomitably inspected royal estates which belonged to the Duke of Windsor (see p. 27) when...
Riding near Oyster Bay, L. I. with the Countess Edith di Zoppola and the Duke de Verdura, Songwriter Cole Porter's horse reared, fell, rolled on him, broke both his legs...
...polo he plays frequently and well, when. not traveling on business. Born in Bartow, Ga., he went to work in the Maxwell Motors assembly line at 15, at 18 started night school in the Georgia School of Technology, was in the used car trade for himself by 1924, went broke in the Florida boom collapse in 1926. Standing penniless on a Miami street corner, he saw a man trying to sell a Nash for $300. Evans asked if he could try driving it. En route, he stopped at a garage, sold the car for $500, set himself up selling cars...