Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan, Engine Company 23's Assistant Fire Chief Joseph O'Hanlon was driving to a two-alarm fire when his car broke into flames...
...Michigan Avenue, Robert Zwikel was caught making an illegal turn. While Officer Robert Fall wrote a summons, Driver Zwikel closed the car's windows, locked its doors, refused to come out. Officer Fall called a tow truck, which hauled Zwikel & car to headquarters. There Detective Walter Storms broke a window with his pistol butt. Warned Driver Zwikel as they jailed him: "You'll make my wife angry. I was supposed to meet her an hour...
...Fate Andre Malraux told the fearful story of a few days in Shanghai that shook the Eastern world-the period in the fall of 1927 when Chiang Kai-shek broke with his Communist allies and the Chinese revolution ended in a swirl of arrests, assassinations, executions, torture. Malraux's account was fiction, but to Occidental readers it seemed far more real than the wild and contradictory newspaper reports of what happened to the remnants of the Chinese Communists...
...price of $250,000 on his head. Evenings, perched on a stool inside Mao's solid-stone hut, Snow slowly took down Mao's patiently dictated autobiography. Incorporated into Red Star Over China, it makes a valuable document in its own right. When Chiang Kai-shek broke with the Communists in 1927, Mao organized the Soviet in Hunan Province. Despite the internal feuds and contradictory policies of the Comintern, the Hunan Soviet lasted from 1930 to 1934, and with only 40,000 men stood off four attacks by Chiang Kai-shek's armies. For this success...
...night go-odd years ago, a group of wild young rapscallions broke into a Masonic temple in Cayuga County, N. Y., put on the ceremonial robes and organized a mock secret society. One of these young limbs was an eloquent, enterprising Union College graduate named Lewis Henry Morgan. A crusading teetotaler but a hard smoker and poker player who had leisure for such japes because hard times kept him from practicing law, Morgan became secretary of the burlesque secret society, turned it into a serious organization called The New Confederacy of the Iroquois. To work up authentic initiation ceremonies...