Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white, one black. Honest Ras Desta Demtu would be an ideal Quartermaster General if Ethiopia had a modern army, but he is a poor strategist. He made the mistake of entrenching part of his troops. Under the pounding of Italian guns they fell back slowly at first, finally broke and ran. Unsupported by eye witnesses, Italians exultingly claimed that they had killed 5,000 Ethiopians, advanced 142 miles in six days-a manifest impossibility for an army in Ethiopia, though scouting tanks may have done so unopposed...
...corruption in the French Government; the marching indignation of French citizens who made for the Chamber of Deputies only to be fired upon (TIME, Feb. 19, 1934)-in short the whole colossal Stavisky Scandal which nearly produced another French Revolution has had one concrete result. Since the scandal broke, French politicians have realized that they must stand together, and the nation has been ruled by coalition Cabinets with greater authority and less squabbling in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate than heretofore...
Cattle-road was Bellevue & Cascade of Iowa which operated, intermittently, 35.7 miles of track. Bellevue & Cascade had only one locomotive, a 50-year-oldster whose axle broke in 1934. Since that accident, claimed angry farmers, the train jumped the track so often and killed so many cattle that no farmer would ship livestock on it. The Interstate Commerce Commission gave permission for the mileage to be abandoned...
...Author has ridden to hounds for 35 years. Well-to-do, like most M.F.H.'s, he still goes to his old-fashioned Manhattan office to "work for his living" as a coal dealer. An all-round horseman, he har had many a nasty spill, broke his hip playing polo 14 years ago and has walked with a halting gait ever since. Says he: "I'm better on four legs than two." Of Scottish ancestry, he is prouder of being a Yankee who was born in Israel Putnam's house in Greenwich, Conn. A Ph.D., LL.D...
...that isolated outbreak on one small ship of George Ill's navy looms larger than it should, has been given undeserved credit for causing widespread naval reforms. What really focused British attention on the seamen's plight was a much bigger affair that broke out in home waters eight years after the Bounty mutiny. In The Floating Republic Authors Manwaring & Dobree give a straightforward, factual account of the events which crippled two whole fleets and kept all England buzzing in the spring...