Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After several hours of oratory the meeting broke up peacefully. Meanwhile in Monroe, guardsmen (including a local howitzer company under Captain Brice C. Custer, great-nephew of General George A. Custer, who spent much of his early life in Monroe) stood watch. Only excitement to break the Sabbath calm was when Governor Murphy stopped in the town to attend church and visit St. Mary's College...
...earlier Bishop Holland McTeyeire had extracted from his wife's cousin-in-law, "Commodore'' Cornelius Vanderbilt, a $500,000 endowment. An unexpectedly dark horse, Chancellor Kirkland insisted on appointing his own Board of Trust to manage it. When the Church refused to relinquish control, Chancellor Kirkland broke its grip in Tennessee's supreme court. Soon Vanderbilt's were the first Southern classrooms to hear about Evolution and modern geology. Armed with several millions more from the Vanderbilts and the General Education Board, Chancellor Kirkland replenished his faculty, secured in 1919 the General Education Board...
...Since then its revenues have been relatively stable but its costs have soared, chiefly due to higher taxes-up from $867,000 to $1,400,000 in the last five years. Last week New York Steam suddenly passed dividends on its preferred stocks. The 7% issue broke 19 points on the news while the 6% issue, which had been around $100, sold as low as $75 per share...
...eight of the nine insurance failures in the U. S. that year were Illinois companies. Biggest of these, and third or fourth biggest insurance crash of the Depression, was Illinois Life, which had $150,000,000 in policies outstanding when the siphoning of Chicago's Hotelmen Stevens finally broke it (TIME, Dec. 5, 1932). The resulting yells of dismay brought swift reform in Governor Horner's first term...
They did not meet again till Irina was famous and Ivan a hunted revolutionary. And they met only to quarrel. Then the Revolution broke and the tables turned. Now Ivan was a power and Irina a nobody, endangered. He saved her life but could not or would not keep her from prison. After an ingenious jail delivery engineered by her friends, when she was nearly at the Finnish border and safety, the two lovers met again. Whether neither or both or one crossed the border is a secret any adventure author would prefer readers to discover for themselves...