Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week, even the redoubtable Belgian Sovereign might have shown less courage, resourcefulness and firmness than did President Eduard Benes last week. Astonished Prague learned on Wednesday evening from press wires that Neville Chamberlain would fly on Thursday morning to Berchtesgaden, bitterly observed that the violent Sudeten German riots which broke out on Monday night, directly after Hitler's Nürnberg speech, had been quelled by police and gendarmes so effectively that at 7:30 p. m. on Tuesday orders went out from Henlein headquarters for Sudeten German fighting to cease and outlawed Nazi symbols to be withdrawn...
...women of the British Mission left Prague for London this week just ahead of the staggering news that Britain and France demanded Czechoslovakia yield part of the Sudetenland to Germany with out even a plebiscite. "Impossible ! That can't be true!" Government officials cried as press wires first broke the news, later confirmed to President Benes by the British and French Ministers. In London, the shock "cracked" Czechoslovak Minister Jan Masaryk, son of the late founder of Czechoslovakia, and he took his break down to bed. In Paris, the Czech Minister Stefan Osusky left the Foreign Office with tears...
...telephone, the Herex strung out its scoop for two long days, finally delivered its "prisoners" to State's Attorney Courtney's office on the third. Immediately, Kolesiak repudiated his Herex "confession," produced a witness to prove he was in a trolley car accident when the fire broke out. But most newsmen agreed the Herex had added another notable knot to a string of dizzy scoops...
...Named after its British designer, Reid Railton, who also designed Sir Malcolm Campbell's Bluebird, first car ever to travel 300 m.p.h. and holder of the world's record before Captain Eyston's Thunderbolt. Last week Sir Malcolm broke his own world's record for speed on water by driving his motorboat Bluebird 130 m.p.h. on Lake Hallwil, Switzerland...
...eight times, making foreign holdings and trading less relatively important. Last week the SEC and the Exchange had their heads together on methods of cushioning the inevitable shock that war liquidation would bring. Day after the Sudeten ultimatum to Czechoslovakia, volume rocketed to 2,800,000 shares and prices broke to new lows since June (132 on the Dow-Jones Industrial scale...