Word: broker
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rice conservation law. The statute restored to the Chippewas their exclusive harvest rights on some 200,000 acres of Minnesota's rice lakes, outlawed all harvesting methods except the traditional way of the Indians. Chosen to administer the law was a respected Chippewa half-breed named Frank Broker...
Many a great painting has sold for as much as $40,000 or more, but few engravings or prints have ever brought such a price. When really valuable prints are sold, the broker is usually a high-brow art dealer. But last week a print did bring $40,000, and the agent who made the fabulous sale was a cut-rate department store, Manhattan's R. H. Macy...
...last week a telephone in the office of a Wall Street customers man trilled. Grabbing the receiver, the customers man found an old friend anxious to chat. "Get off the wire," bridled the broker, "you're interrupting my chess game...
...which came into wide use. He is called Britain's best-informed tank and anti-tank man, "Wizard" because his knowledge of gunnery is so well-rounded he is also an anti-aircraft ace. Spectacled, dark, pinched, with a close-clipped mustache, he looks more like a "City" broker than the soldier-sportsman that he is (in the Army since 1902). His fox-hunting Irish father was Master of the Pau pack (supposed descendants of hounds with which Wellington's officers hunted in Spain). Sir Alan, who was born and raised in France, is one of the Empire...
...warned of an impending attack. For the Richelieu's commander had been signaled and had refused surrender terms similar to those offered Vice Admiral Gensoul for his squadron at Oran last fortnight. As the deadline approached in the small hours, the flag officer of the British detachment designated Broker Bristowe to lead an attack...