Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courtroom fell into a hush as, in a clear, well modulated voice Judge Allen began to read the decision. No sooner had she paused for a first swallow of water than TVA's General Counsel James Lawrence Fly broke into a broad grin. At the utilities counsel table gloom slowly spread over the face of the late Newton D. Baker's Cleveland law partner, William H. Bemis. For by the time Florence Allen, several gulps of water and 70 minutes later, had finished reading it was clear that TVA had scored a monumental legal victory...
Surgeon General Thomas Parran was unduly grave as he broke ground for a new group of U. S. Public Health Service re-search buildings near Washington fortnight ago. No one in the nation knew better than he the necessity of hurrying the construction and use of the establishment. For in his Washington office lay a heap of data, accumulated by inquiring...
...Post-Dispatch in 1914 he tore open the rank official corruption in East St. Louis while gamblers and police snarled telephone warnings to his wife on Saturday nights: "Look for that damned husband of yours in Cahokia Creek tomorrow morning!" On July 2, 1917 the famous race riot broke out, 34 Negroes and eight white men were slaughtered-18 of them before 23-year-old Paul Anderson's eyes. He took a hotel room in East St. Louis, swashed the blood off his shoes, ferreted out a stack of evidence which helped send 20 roughnecks to prison...
During the second preliminary fight before the Braddock-Farr match at Madison Square Garden last week, a brawling broke out in the press row at the ringside. Promoter Mike Jacobs, hastening through the crowd of spectators, police and opponents, irritably declared: "We're having a damned sight more fighting outside the ring than in it! We have a full house. I suggest you gentlemen save those fisticuffs for some night when we don't have such a splendid attendance...
...last week a violent "magnetic storm" or disturbance of the earth's magnetic field broke out. Associated with the current high sunspot activity, the magnetic storm caused transatlantic telephone communication by short-wave radio to go haywire. Since it is the medium short-wave band which appears to suffer most from such disturbances, American Telephone & Telegraph Co. and R. C. A. Communications restored telephone traffic across the Atlantic by shifting to longer wavelengths...