Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington an "authoritative White House source" revealed that the successor to Ambassador William E. Dodd in Berlin, who handed in his resignation last summer, would be Assistant Secretary of State Hugh R. Wilson. Next day even bigger news broke. The New York Times, whose White House pipe line is the envy and despair of other papers, revealed that Robert Worth Bingham, Ambassador to the Court of St. James (now recuperating from malaria at Johns Hopkins), would be replaced by Irish Joseph Patrick Kennedy...
...undrilled Chinese youths, most of whom scarcely knew how to use a rifle, were flung against advancing Japanese regulars, and horribly butchered. The crack, German-drilled Chinese 88th Division under ruthless officers, conserving its own strength, drove the Chinese recruits forward and shot in the back those who broke and ran. Twelve miles from Nanking 300 Chinese were surrounded atop a hill by Japanese who set fire to the long grass. It set fire to the trees, burned fiercely completely around the hill, slowly forcing the 300 Chinese to the top. There Japanese machine guns firing into the ring...
...Italian policy of Premier Stoyadinovich is today anything but popular. This week cheering crowds attempted to form a procession behind the car of M. Delbos as he drove through Belgrade, were dispersed by mounted police who charged with nailing sabres. Immediately other pro-French demonstrations broke out all over Belgrade, the crowds hurling brickbats at the police. Outside the Parliament building a gendarme was overpowered, stabbed in the stomach with his own bayonet. Wild shooting followed, punctuated with cries of "Vive la France! Long live democracy! Down with Fascism! Down with Italy!" While ambulances were taking the wounded to hospitals...
Last week, during a performance of Tosca, pandemonium broke loose in Chicago's Civic Opera House. Excited operagoers pounded the floor, stood on their seats and yelled frantic approval. Conductor Moranzoni tried to get the perform-ance going again, was stopped by a gusty chorus of "boos." For more than five minutes the demonstration continued. Finally the cause of it, a broad-shouldered, lusty-looking Italian tenor, Galliano Masini, repeated "E lucevan le stelle." And the opera was allowed...
...loose, sprayed the torpedo room with a white sticky froth; both magnetic and gyroscopic compasses were smashed, most of the crew were laid out. The captain decided to turn back. For six days the L-9 was lost. The weather grew colder and the days darker, until the sun broke through, revealed that the submarine had been heading in the general direction of the North Pole...