Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lewis speech was any reference to Steelman Tom Girdler, on whom Mr. Lewis usually lavishes his fine talent for invective. Reason: on the advice of Columbia Broadcasting lawyers he deleted his sulphurous remarks about Mr. Girdler.* Also toned down were some of the phrases about Governor Davey, whose militiamen broke the strike in Ohio. Roared Labor Lion Lewis: "The steel puppet, Davey, is still Governor of Ohio, but not for long. I think, not for long! ... No tin hat brigade of goosestepping vigilantes or bible-babbling mob of blackguarding and corporation-paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of Labor...
Quick to respond was none other than the ever zealous City of Chicago itself which, broke as usual, submitted a bill for not part but all of the $241,000, plus an extra $27,000 for good measure. This bill, Chicago's Corporation Counsel urbanely explained, was for 3,351,655,000 gal. of water from Lake Michigan which the city claimed it had sold, not given, to the Exposition. The Exposition's answer: In 1932 the city had passed an order "that there shall be no charge against the Exposition for water"; the Exposition had paid...
...more than usually jampacked with shipping taking refuge from Shanghai's war 1,000 miles to the north. Suddenly in from the China Sea blasted the worst typhoon in ten years. So furious was the wind that observatory instruments, capable of registering up to 125 m.p.h., broke down...
Picking up whatever implements they could lay their hands on, a band of marauders broke into the school and proceeded to thwack, whack, hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What...
Although he discovered this fact belatedly Publisher Knox acted in haste. In doing so he broke an unwritten rule: no AP member complains about policies publicly without first mumbling his grievances before AP's board of directors. But the Knox distaste for calumny was well-fed while he stumped for Alf Landon during the grueling days leading up to last Nov. 3, and he had acquired an acute distaste for all those whom he considers journalistic scavengers. In addition the Colonel is known to boast that 75% of his wire news is selected from the United Press, a well...