Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year after their "sick chicken" had routed the Blue Eagle in the U. S. Supreme Court at a cost to them of $20,000, Brooklyn's four NRA-hating Schechter brothers were discovered to be broke, their home and their big poultry jobbing business gone. Last week in Brooklyn the press turned up another martyr to the cause of Rugged Individualism in the person of Joe Tipaldo, laundryman who fought New York's minimum wage law for women up to the U. S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, June...
...Sept. 1 Toledo mobsters under orders from Madrid broke ground for subterranean mining of the Alcázar and talked of blowing it up with "20 tons of TNT." On Sept. 3 a lieutenant of the Red Militia, apparently in his cups and wearing a gaudy bathrobe, staggered toward the Alcázar shouting that he wanted to rescue a Red comrade who had fallen wounded just outside its walls. "All right!" called an Alcázar cadet, "Come and rescue him, so long as you leave us his gun." This bargain the bathrobed rescuer scrupulously kept. On Sept...
Track relics include the shoe worn by Wendell Baker '86, in setting a new world's record for the 440 yard dash, the she which broke and came off 155 yards from the finish...
With the prospect of four more equally strenuous days ahead, fits of weeping broke out. Someone stepped on "Miss Cincinnati's" toe, causing an infection that sent her to a hospital. Girls who arrived thin were growing thinner. "Miss Bluegrass" was down to a measly 95 lb. When Director George D. Tyson heard that some of the girls were in a rebellious mood, he firmly announced: "Any girls not following the approved schedule will be disqualified...
Before their personal rivalry reached its great climax the War broke. Max made another fortune in Russia, was arrested by the Bolsheviks, saved by his brother, who was killed in an anti-Semitic outbreak. Max returned to Lodz to build still another fortune. But the prosperity of Lodz had depended on the Russian market, and as panic followed inflation the grimy "Manchester of Europe" lost its reason for being, and Max symbolically died as his city began to stagnate...