Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Uruguayan Government recently satisfied itself that Communist revolutionaries in various South American countries have been cashing large checks drawn "to bearer" by the Soviet Legation in Montevideo. When it broke off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, it left Russia without a single embassy or legation in any South American country (TIME, Jan. 6). In rip-roaring fashion last week Russia's roly-poly Foreign Minister pitched into Uruguay's Guani and soon sent the League of Nations off into gales of laughter by reading two cablegrams sent to. him in Moscow by the former Soviet Minister...
...largely made out of banking, sugar, rubber, public utilities, tractions. But Nelson Aldrich was also one of the most potent men ever to enter the Senate. With Platt of Connecticut, Spooner of Wisconsin and Allison of Iowa, he practically ran the country from 1897 to 1905 when the quartet broke publicly with Roosevelt I. In 1909, as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he was co-author of the notorious Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act which cost the Republicans the House of Representatives in the 1910 election. After 30 years in his seat Senator Aldrich retired...
...When War broke, he asked for and got an appointment as consultant at a shipyard in Camden, N. J. For months he was given nothing to do. The other engineers were trying vainly to balance the turbine rotors for torpedo boat destroyers. Called in as a last resort. Teetor drew on his supersensitive ''feel" for vibration, found a way to balance the rotors in three hours each...
Whistler Garth, who is really Edward B. Dolbey Jr., was not to be discouraged by critics who next day questioned the artistic value of the human whistle. He had felt really frustrated at the age of 12, when his boyish soprano voice broke and his only musical outlet was whistling. He learned then to produce his tones breathing in or out, to hold a long-sustained legato, trill like a coloratura. After his graduation from Bucknell University (Class of 1928) he began his double life: Five days a week he is Edward B. Dolbey, working in his father...
...hide there if anybody came. Neither of them could solve a division problem that had decimals in it. What really kept them going was not the family lawyer's meagre disbursements but Elie's rich brother, a successful banker. When the bachelors' crazy household finally broke up from lack of funds, Elie was settled in a boarding house and Leon was sent to live in the keeper's lodge on his rich uncle's estate. Leon thought he was getting the best of it, but bad old Elie had the laugh...