Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...City under the Chilean regime, gloomily signed away the municipal buildings, the civic water works, the provincial railways, everything. Across the table Peru's beaming, complacent Foreign Minister Rada y Gamio in effect signed receipts. Both statesmen worked cautiously, inspecting each document minutely ere they autographed it irrevocably. Dawn broke. Presently it was high noon. Still the pen-scratching continued...
...home jaunt was small, saturnine Capt. Ernst A. Lehmann, 42, Assistant Director of the Zeppelin works and easily Dr. Ecke-ner's peer in airship navigation. He was a naval architect on the late Count Ferdinand Zeppelin's staff and was operating a Zeppelin, the Sachsen, when the War broke out. Perforce he became a raider, bombed Antwerp once, London twice. In his book The Zeppelins, he reports, without boast or apology, that he could have destroyed London were that the German desire. He invented the device of concealing dirigible raiders by lowering a pilot in a steel basket...
Father of the idea is Frederick N. Sard, executive director of the Schubert Centennial (1928) and the Beethoven Centennial (1927). Touring Europe to enlist help. Organizer Sard broke the news last week in Vienna. He announced as a prominent cooperator Count di San Martino. president of the Augusteo Orchestra and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, who will head the European delegations. Another noble cooperator, the Marquis Tokugawa of Japan, will chairman a Far Eastern Committee. Music Patrons Otto Hermann Kahn and George Eastman will serve on the U. S. board. In conjunction with the festival a technical exposition...
Four snorting speedboats, at the starter's gun, skittered and skimmed away over the Shrewsbury River at Red Bank, N. J., one day last week. One broke a rudder. One turned a flipflop. One's motor languished. Sole survivor was the Imp, owned and driven by Richard Farnsworth Hoyt (Hayden Stone & Co., director of 44 corporations, 20 aviation companies), which roared on lustily to win the gold cup, prime trophy of U. S. speedboating. Imp won all three heats, in the first attained a speed of 51.9 m.p.h., fastest gold cup time since restrictions on engine-power...
...such thing happened. C. Roy Keys's sleek Wilgold III won handily. Mr. Keys, himself driving another of his speedboats in the race, capsized on a turn, broke...