Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confidence in the ability of "Our Sun" to strike abroad came in no poem but in dispatches from Nanking. There officials close to the Soviet Embassy opined that Dictator Stalin is about to aid Dictator Chiang Kai-shek in a most ingenious way. In 1924, they recalled, Outer Mongolia broke away from Chinese sovereignty, began to revolve with the constellation of Soviet Republics, and has been heavily armed by Russia with battle planes, artillery, tanks. Outer Mongolia can now return to nominal Chinese sovereignty if Stalin pleases, thus carrying millions of dollars worth of war paraphernalia complete with Soviet military...
Last week the Tennessean's Alexander revealed that three of the original kidnappers, now Tennessee businessmen, without consulting their five companions, broke their 18-year silence only to help Columnist Alexander raise money for expensive operations to save 12-year-old Truman Jr., an infantile paralysis victim. By last week the raid of 1919 had ended well for all concerned: Writer Alexander had received $1,500 from the Satevepost; 90-lb. Buddy Alexander, after two excruciating spinal operations and a blood transfusion from his father, was in a Manhattan hospital, encased in 125 pounds of plaster, grinning and beginning...
Like his fellow-islanders, Terangi could not stand confinement, and he wanted to get back to Marama. He broke jail so many times that he became a legend. Each time he tried to get away he added from two to five years to his sentence. Eight years had passed before he hit on the scheme of pretending to hang himself so that the jailer would come in and bring the keys. He killed a sentry with a blow of his fist, paddled an outrigger 600 miles back to his own atoll. He had just found Marama again when a hurricane...
Died. Jack McAuliffe, 71, retired (1893) undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills...
...Toronto meeting broke up with a free-for-all argument on the floor regarding the relative effects of heredity and training on children. One virtuoso of the science of child study argued that Marie was smaller and less smart than the others because the "bag of water" which, like a soft shell, encloses a fetus, broke before she was born...