Word: broke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this escape clause might be ignored by the steelworkers as an immaterial legalism. But both John Lewis and the steelmasters have proclaimed the indivisible relationship of wages and prices. And a few hours before pens were put to the Big Steel contract, price-cutting broke out in Little Steel, with the announcement of a $4-per-ton reduction on cold-rolled sheets, an important item to the automobile industry (see p. 63). If price-cutting becomes general, U. S. Steel and the rest of the 500 companies which are expected to renew their C. I. 0. contracts on the same...
...Hohenzollern suddenly made himself as much a Dictator as was his brother-in-law, the late King Alexander of Yugoslavia, assassinated at Marseille (TIME. Oct. 15, 1934, et seq.). Carol II has long hankered after the absolutism of his Hohenzollern kinsman Wilhelm II. Last week's crisis broke after Premier Octavian Goga received two heavy blows: 1) his entire slate of anti-Semitic decrees was declared unconstitutional; and 2) a brawl in which Goga's own political rowdies, "The Lance Bearers," killed two members of the Nazi-Fascist Iron Guard caused anti-Semite Goga to be deserted...
...grits, bacon & eggs and biscuits covered with ham gravy and corn syrup, the boys and girls went forth into the fields to string barbed wire fences, lime the ground, scrape roads, chop trees, split logs, ride mules, barbecue a pair of pigs, drive a tractor (until Student Katy Sprackling broke it). They astonished a Georgia farm family by rebuilding its shack, whitewashing the walls, cutting new windows, building a porch. At dusk they had enough energy left to chase across the Georgia hills hunting 'possum...
...Meanwhile, new trouble broke out in Texas, where three associated dailies-Brownsville Herald, McAllen Monitor and Harlingen Star-turned off their presses and padlocked their doors rather than sign closed-shop contracts with their printers...
...love is lost between other Philadelphia art authorities and Dr. Albert Coombs Barnes, inventor of Argyrol, collector and self-appointed gadfly to museums. Last November Dr. Barnes broke a short truce with a bitter horselaugh at Millionaire Joseph Widener for buying, and at the Pennsylvania Museum of Art for accepting, a large, sparse Cézanne which he called inferior (TIME, Nov. 29). Lately the wealthy doctor has formed a queer alliance with the Philadelphia Artists' Union to discomfit attractive Mary Curran, State director of the Federal Art Project...