Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Fierce rioting broke out as the British apparently lost control of the situation. Dagger-armed Arabs systematically raided all parts of Jerusalem and many suburbs...
...their hour of triumph the Chinese Nationalists broke with the Soviet Govern-ment (TIME, April 25, 1927) which had so largely financed their successful revolution. Comrade Blücher returned to Moscow. His assignment last week to command the Soviet Eastern Army, massed along China's Manchurian frontier, was a shrewd, logical stroke, well calculated to shake Chinese morale...
...five-hour fight 22 miles from Manchuli, the frontier city where preliminary Russo-Chinese peace parlying recently broke down. Killed: two Chinese, twelve Russians...
...broke the "underlying cause" would be China's banishment of Russians employed on the Chinese-Eastern railway jointly owned by China and Russia (TIME, July 22, et seq.). Moscow denies Nanking's charge that the Russian employes had been hatching "terrorist plots...
...aviation industry's first stockjobbing scandal broke open last week. Whenever public imagination fixes on an industry, as on Oil a decade ago and Gold before that, crooks easily sell stock of little or no value to everready gulls...