Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...woods, who turns seductress for the second act. As the Walkure Brünnhilde she wore short, bushy hair, a cloak the color of the clouds, fairly flew about the stage. At a Götterdäm-merung performance she fell down a flight of steps backstage and broke her ankle. After it was tightly bound she went on singing Brünnhilde, became so absorbed in the role that she never even limped, collapsed only when the curtain fell. As a person Fremstad was as incalculable as a storybook diva. When she swept off stage...
...also wrote his own stories, chose his cast and took complete control of his productions. Long determined not to go to Hollywood, where, far from being No. 1 man in the industry, he doubted whether he would even be allowed to run his own Unit, Director Clair last autumn broke his own precedent to the extent of going to England to work for Producer Alexander Korda. U. S. Author Sherwood wrote the script of The Ghost Goes West, but in other respects it was a characteristic Clair production. Producer Korda, whose advice he might well have welcomed, scrupulously refrained from...
Election to a state senatorship from his native Vermont in 1929 spelled the doom of in 1935 of both DEmocratic and Republican machines in the state. The lieutenant governorship was his in 1931. He shortly broke with his friend, Ruby Laffoon, governor an dKentucky Coon creator. In Governor Laffoon's absence he pushed through a law requiring the selection of a public national candidate by primary, not party convention. By fortuitous and planned maneuvering, he was rollered to the governorship in November. He was not an old-line Democratic choice, but he was a Democrat and he endorsed President Roosevelt...
...Embassy staff in Moscow brightened up as they were given a job last week, proceeded to take over for safekeeping the diplomatic paraphernalia of the Uruguayan Legation and consulate. Fortnight ago Uruguay, then the only South American country having diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, broke them off (TIME, Jan. 6), and last week Comrade Alexander Minkin, Soviet Minister to Uruguay, sailed away from Montevideo hissing threats in excitable Russian...
...outlawing of processing taxes and prospective refunds of impounded levies. Since the Supreme Court's decision strengthened the case against the Public Utility Act, power stocks also rose sharply. Shares in farm machinery and mail order companies declined. Cotton spurted, then sagged. Wheat did the same. Sugar broke badly. But allowing for innumerable and inevitable readjustments, the average U. S. businessman hailed the AAA decision as even better news than the death of the Blue Eagle last June...