Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...barricade surrounding the cannery deputies opened fire with riot guns. In the first fusillade, Striker Bill Tucker went down with a face and chestful of birdshot (see cut). The battle raged back and forth. Fourteen automobiles full of deputies arrived and were met by a barrage of rocks that broke their windows. Wounded men fell on every side. A would-be good Samaritan, Elmo Botkin, rushed in bearing a first aid kit, was promptly felled by a picket with a baseball bat, received an apology when he came to, was hospitalized. A short distance from the heart of the strife...
...have been fighting on the Madrid front. All Leftist tanks are Russian, but paid for with Spanish gold. Some 2,000 Spaniards are undergoing training as pilots now, presumably in Russia. At least 90% of the officers in the Spanish Army went over to the Rightists when war broke; the Leftists have been advised by Russian regular, and French volunteer, officers...
...dishwashers, laundresses, electricians, slop women and orderlies put on a sit-down strike in the hospital's kitchens, pantries and ice plant. Babies cried because their wet diapers were not changed. Doctors and nurses were obliged to go to public restaurants for their meals. After eight hours, police broke up the strike by throwing the help in jail following a stiff scrimmage...
Towards the end of the half Bob Waldinger broke away near the Boston goal and got off a good pass to Bill Waters who crossed the line for Harvard's first score. The try was not converted, leaving Boston in the lead...
George Cushman, and Tom Campion were the other Crimson players who broke into the scoring column with one goal apiece while Junie Merriam, Ned Pickering and Jack Fuller scored for the Indians...