Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government are two royalist groups. Of these the Legitimists want to enthrone former King Alfonso XIII's third son Don Juan. The Carlists had as their candidate old Don Alfonso Carlos, who 65 years ago tried by an armed insurrection to seize the throne. When the new revolution broke out 18 months ago, he was 86. All he did was to order some 60,000 Carlists to fight under Generalissimo Franco while he sat tight in Vienna. Then one day he was killed by an automobile, and his second cousin, Prince Xavier, was chosen as the new Carlist pretender...
...next morning a detail of young soldiers under a Lieutenant Huisse, assisted by several municipal chemists and police, started carrying the packing cases to the waiting trucks. One clumsy soldier let a case fall. With crash after crash that broke windows a mile away, the cases exploded. The trucks were left two tangles of twisted steel in a puddle of burning oil and blood. Fourteen men were killed instantly. Parts of the bodies were blown 200 feet away. Only four of the 14 could be identified. Minister of the Interior Albert Sarraut promised a formal state funeral for the remains...
...recent rash of big ideas among heads of Central American states (see below) last week broke out in Nicaragua. Jeronimo Ramirez Brown, Minister of the Interior, announced that employers will be fined if they fail to give employes at least two hours for lunch or fail to provide chairs on which idle employes...
Over three weeks ago a bitter ruction broke out in print among the elite of U. S. sportswriters when New York News Sports Editor Jimmy Powers reproached some of his fellows for an alleged alliance with sharp Promoter Mike Jacobs. New York Mirror Sports Editor Dan Parker countered that "Screwball Bowers" had "appropriated" word for word a Herbert Gorem sports story from the New York Sun, "used it ... in his syndicated out-of-town column...
...year and a half before the 1929 stock crash, bonds broke. Last March, Business failed tc take the hint, however, when bonds that three months before had been at their highest level in history, broke violently. In one day $23,450,000 of Government bonds alone were traded on the New York Stock Exchange, a 16-year record...