Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Marseille, France, Jean Guery defended a client so movingly that the judges broke into tears, then sentenced him to three years in jail when they discovered he was not a lawyer...
...hurricane, as a year ago last autumn, Californians gloat. But until this winter growers of California navel oranges and growers of Florida Valencia oranges have discreetly avoided talking down the other fellows' fruit in northern cities where the chief customers of both live. The California Fruit Growers Exchange broke this discreet merchandising convention this winter by advertising flatly in newspapers and magazines, on streetcar cards and billboards: "Sunkist navel oranges are 22% richer in vitamin C [anti-scurvy, anti-colds] than Florida oranges...
...onetime U. S. Senator Philander Chase Knox; of nephritis and heart disease; in London. Born & raised in Pennsylvania, when he had saved $76 he quit the Pittsburgh Times to see the Graeco-Turkish War of 1897. Next year, appearing with his bullet-proof typewriter-case just before trouble broke out, he covered the Spanish-American War. Thence he went to the Boxer Rebellion of 1900, the Russo-Japanese War of 1904, was in Brussels in 1914 when the German invasion began. For his Wartime service he was knighted in 1920. In 1935 he was the first to discover and reveal...
...still kingpin, announced the latest winner of its most important prize-the Harmon National Trophy for the year's outstanding feat in aviation. In the past it has been won by Flyers Post, Musick, Earhart. Winner for 1936: Millionaire Howard Hughes, for setting the transcontinental record which he broke fortnight ago (TIME...
...dark winter of 1932 "Uncle Dan" Willard of the Baltimore & Ohio and eight other railroad presidents met 21 representatives of railroad labor in the Palmer House at Chicago. The U. S. railroads, said "Uncle Dan" in effect, were just about broke. Maintenance and fixed charges had been cut to the bone. Would the 1.000,000 U. S. railway employes take at 10% temporary deduction in pay to save the roads from ruin? The workers' representatives said yes. Two years later in Washington Capital and Labor again got together, agreed on a staggered plan to restore the deduction, thus unsensationally...