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Word: broking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story broke in the Traveler last night. University Hall surmised that the metropolitan press had picked up a tip from a Boston insurance broker, since Mr. Lowes' statement forms the first official word on the subject...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD EXTENDS PENSIONS SYSTEM AMONG EMPLOYEES | 11/17/1936 | See Source »

...said to be down on his luck, bitter against Ballard, whom he had unsuccessfully sued for $250,000 for breach of contract. Pat Piper, a Chicago bookmaker in the next room, was struck by a piece of plaster when a bullet crashed through the wall. When detectives broke down the door they found Ballard seated in a chair with a bullet through his heart, Alexander dying, a suicide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIANA: Gambler's Progress | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...could be duplicated only by merging into strange bedfellowship, for example, Batten, Barton, Durstine & Osborn and the Associated Press. Adman Guimier is also the publisher of the violently anti-Blum daily Journal and as such is a newsman in his own right. Last week he broke the biggest French press story in years by resigning his Havas directorship and hurling the charge that Premier Blum had told Havas they could take their choice: either M. Guimier must resign from Havas, or the Havas advertising agency must be unmerged and separated from the Havas news service. How the Premier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: French Vendetta | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...South Hadley, Mass., retiring President Mary Emma Woolley of Mount Holyoke broke ground for a new $250,000 chapel, reported encouraging progress in her current campaign for a $10,000,000 college fund. Same time, President Frederick P. Keppel of Carnegie Corporation observed in his annual report that the in come of private educational institutions had started on the upgrade from Depression...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Hat Passers | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

Meanwhile the Varsity, hampered by frost in its early morning Armistice workout, devoted most of its time to pass offense and defense. Yesterday George Roberts broke into the A team line up again replacing Art Oakes who takes his place on the B squad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KNAPP ELECTED JAYVEE HEAD; ROBERTS RAISED | 11/12/1936 | See Source »

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