Word: brokering
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...supports legitimate Middle East nationalism, but not at the price of disrupting Western unity. "The Western powers can gain, rather than lose, from an orderly development of self-government," said the Secretary. He thought the U.S. could act the role of honest broker in the Middle East, e.g., help find a solution that will reconcile "Egyptian sovereignty and international concern" in the Anglo-Egyptian Suez base dispute...
...parents had had their way-and in 19th century England, parents usually did-Leonard Woods Newman would have been a London tobacco broker. Apprenticed at 18, he began his career dutifully enough. Then, one warm June morning as he pedaled his bicycle to the Bexley railroad station, he fell in love-with a swarm of Clouded Yellow butterflies...
There were good words in abundance. Convention President John Dawson, a Chicago investment broker, announced that for the first time in seven years the convention had raised more (by $250,000) than the amount of its budget ($6,800,000). American Baptists, the delegates heard, gave 9% more in church contributions last year than the year before. In a special ceremony, the convention dedicated 71 home and foreign missionaries, the largest group in recent history...
National League club owners meet today to consider shifting the Boston Braves to Milwaukee, less than 48 hours after the American League refused to let the St. Louis Browns move to Baltimore. Meanwhile, a Boston real estate broker said he had wired an offer of purchase to President Lou Perini...
...Stock broker...