Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ashes. This pretext led to a union v. union strike, which in turn led to a shutdown at the distillery last month. Strikers promptly threw a line of pickets around the plant. The campaign was getting along nicely, in spite of zero weather, when a busload of scabs suddenly broke through the picket line under a tear-gas barrage laid down by Police Chief Harry C. Donahue. Thereupon, Leader Mahoney took an ultimatum to Mayor William E. Schurman: unless the distillery agreed to cease "discriminating" against A. F. of L. unionists, and unless the city council ousted Police Chief Donahue...
...Each paid from $250 to $500 to obtain British citizenship by being married off to a cheap British crook, who received from $10 to $50 for his trouble. Last week expensively-dressed, 220-lb. Mr. Kassel was found bullet-riddled in a ditch 20 miles outside London. Wide open broke a major European vice racket about which detectives on both sides of the channel seemed to teem with information...
Seldom has a prodigy been so unscrupulously exploited. After his amazing debut, Hofmann was booked for 80 concerts, played 52 before his health broke under the strain. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children intervened. The late Alfred Corning Clarke, wealthy Manhattan realtor, donated $50.000 so that the boy could go home to Poland, study in peace. Luck came on a visit to Berlin where young Hofmann played for Anton Rubinstein, became the master's only pupil...
...bathroom of his Washington home, Secretary of the Navy Claude Augustus Swanson, 73, skidded, bumped broke...
Meeting the Crimson's ace, Charlie Hutter, in the 50 and 100 yard free style events, will be Eddie Wood. Hutter, hard pressed by Mat Chrostowski in the Providence Boy's Club meet 50-yard sprint, broke the University pool record, formerly held by Wood and Albert Schwartz of Northwestern, with the time of 23 2-5 seconds. Wood, without being pressed, has done a leisurely 23 4-5 seconds...