Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...When war broke out, Spencer was officially informed by Cambridge that it was up to him whether or not he should go to England this Fall. But in view of unofficial Information that "there would be no one there to teach," he applied for a year's leave of absence from his new post, and was granted a one-year temporary appointment here...
...Hicks is taking the path of those men of good will who, during the World War, broke with the forces that continued to work for a truly humane future," the magazine continues. "That future works, as John Reed was able to foresee and as Lincoln Steffens was able to confirm. It is our historic privilege to continue the good fight of Reed and Steffens...
...said Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain before Parliament on his return from meeting with the Supreme War Council "somewhere in France" (see p. 28), would not end if & when Poland broke. It would end only when Britain and France had "put an end, once and for all, to the intolerable strain of living under the threat of Nazi aggression. . . . There can be no peace until the menace of Hitlerism has been finally removed." The Prime Minister's voice rose only once, when he spoke the ally's language, perhaps echoing something he had heard over there...
When the war broke, Artist Russell Ross and Author Monte Barrett scrapped cuts and continuity prepared six weeks in advance, hastily gave Jane Arden a war assignment. On her way by plane this week to the neutral kingdom of Anderia, while real correspondents were chafing because they could not get to the front, Jane Arden was caught between the lines...
Sometimes the seasons move swiftly. Sometimes there comes an hour when men say "Yesterday it was winter. Today it is spring." Very like that was the change which came over U. S. business fortnight ago when war broke out: whole industries burst into flower, steel, machine tools (see p. 59), aircraft (see p. 63), etc. Many a smaller business feels the push of the season in the same way. Typical of many such were the new conditions last week faced by Marion Steam Shovel Co., No. 2 U. S. maker of shovels (No. 1: Bucyrus-Erie), 1938 net sales...