Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Foley is tarred with the same brush as his crst-while master, so is the Third Democrat, Maurice J. Tobin, whose election to the School Board Mr. Curley made possible. During Mr. Tobin's term of office one of the gravest scandals in the history of the Board broke out, resulting in prison terms for two and ruined reputations for several others. Mr. Tobin weathered this storm by declaring that he was ignorant of the whole affair...
...Hell" Three days later Japanese invaders and Chinese defenders of the various Shanghai areas and environs subjected them to the most terrific chastisement of the War. The offensive recently prepared by Chinese land forces (TIME, Oct. 18) was launched in ghastly sword-to-bayonet, hand-to-throat scrimmages which broke Japanese barriers erected in captured sectors of the Chapei slums, carried Chinese screaming with triumph into mastery of numerous crooked alleyways and shattered streets. Japanese and Chinese machine gunners in some cases kept dueling at each other from behind splintered walls only a few yards apart. Chinese bombing raiders came...
...participate. But the New Hampshire Indians were not on their best guest behavior, however, and tomahawked their hosts with great glee by taking their first victory of the series. No other Hanover eleven can over hope to earn as celebrated a triumph unless it be the one which broke the Yale Bowl jinx. The score of this initial Green success...
Actually the rules were not changed. The credentials committee simply stalled. Efforts to spur the committee to action were futile, though so strenuous at one time that Bill Green broke his gavel pounding for order. Apparently the plan was to stall until Typographer Howard departed for the gathering of C. I. O. leaders this week in Atlantic City, where, as Mr. Howard observed dryly, he usually took a vacation "at this time of year...
When a big Royal Dutch Indies Airliner crashed near Palembang, Sumatra, four people were killed, famed Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann broke bones in his left arm and right hand. "I shall never be able to play again," he moaned, "but thank God nothing worse happened to me!" Doctors assured him, however, that since his muscles did not appear to have been injured, his bones would knit, his playing probably would not be impaired. In great artistic anxiety, he canceled a tour of Java and Palestine, planned to go to Vienna for treatment. Week later Violinist Hubermann was in Bandoeng, Java...