Word: broking
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Great was the regret of short, round-faced Boss O'Connell when the spatter of bullets broke the peace of his demesne on an early morning of last week. Into the heart of "The Gut" had marched Prohibition Agents Irving Washburn and Wilfred Grisson, bent on arrest. Suddenly, a group swarmed from an open doorway. Guns were drawn, fired. Agent Grisson escaped uninjured. But Agent Washburn fell to the pavement, mortally wounded...
...When We got there we could hear them cursing. I broke into the place and found them reeling about like a lot of drunken hogs. It was the worst mess I ever saw. Bottles were being hurled about, men were fighting and two of them attacked me. We arrested the bellhop as he was serving liquor. [They] destroyed a whole bathtub of bottled liquor which was packed...
When Postmaster Peterson of Douglas, Ga., committed suicide this spring (TIME, April 16), people said it was because he had gone broke paying the politicians for his job. It aroused a Senate investigation of how Federal patronage is dispensed in the South, an investigation which got afoot last week under the leadership of Iowa's Brookhart. Georgia's George was on the committee, too, and Ohio's newly-seated Locher...
Maddening Rumors. As everyone remembers, the rich Señorita Mercedes de Castellanos, 47, was courted for several months by the Dictator, who announced his engagement in April, and then publicly broke it off (TIME, June 18) with the explanation that his fiancee had been seen on the floor of the Madrid Stock Exchange accompanied by two noblemen and that such conduct was "imprudent and inexplicable." Since then the Dictator has refused challenges to duel by the noblemen concerned, Conde de Cemira and the Duque de Almodovar, and has been cut by such great ladies as the Marquesa de Urquijo...
...Olympics started, last fortnight, it was the Detroit Free Press which proudly hailed Detroit as THE ONE centre of aviation in the U. S. But last week the Detroit News broke with its contemporary, conquered local pride, generously yielded the palm to Cleveland. Said the News, editorially: "Cleveland's foresight has brought its own reward. The landing field is being hailed as 'the world's greatest air traffic center' and sufficient facts are presented to substantiate the boast. The total volume of traffic during the last few months has exceeded that of Tempelhofer Field, Berlin...