Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, in a way memorable of the events which led to the World War, one European nation abruptly broke diplomatic relations with another, went so far as to shut off inter-nation telephone communication. Foreign correspondents and diplomats gasped. It was an action such as is seldom taken unless war is imminent, and it occurred because a small Czechoslovak factory refused to fill a commercial order for the Government of Portugal. Although Premier Dr. Antonio de Oliveira Salazar of Portugal, who ordered his Minister José da Costa Carneiro to leave Prague is a dictator and therefore unaccountable...
...written declaration that the arms were exclusively for the Portuguese Army, finally welched on the entire order. Portugal, insisting that the factory was actually Government owned and that cancellation of the order had been made "under pressure of those who wish to prevent or impede Portugal's rearmament," broke relations without further warning. Behind this act lay a simple inference...
Line Broken. A crisis for the Japanese occurred two days later when Chinese soldiers plunging in wave after wave against the street barricades of Japanese marines, broke through the line to the north river bank held for many hours about five full blocks of Whangpoo dockyards. Promptly the Japanese warships in midstream upped anchor and steamed slowly past the broken line Too close to depress the muzzles of their big guns sufficiently, they passed in review pouring a hot stream of fire from every machine gun and light cannon into the Chinese lines...
This is a small tributary indeed to the vast flow from U. S. oil fields, which last week for the 17th time since January 1 broke all records with an average production of 3,651,000 barrels per day. But for Illinois it is a revival of hopes forgotten during the quarter-century when the State's oil production dwindled from a peak of 33,000,000 barrels in 1910 to a scant 4,000,000 last year in the old pumping grounds near the Indiana border. Most active of the new fields is the Patoka pool south...
...life in society, filed a petition in voluntary bankruptcy. Among the creditors listed were Empire Trust Co. ($2,875), Dr. Callahan, of Bull Street, Newport ($10), Newport One-Price Clothing Co. ($6.35), Good Will Cleansers ($6.20), Wing Lee, laundryman ($1.48), Western Union Telegraph Co. (38?). In 1923, when broke, Socialite French took an unsuccessful flyer at driving a taxicab...