Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lammers, Hitler's personal State Secretary and Chief of the Chancellery. Least known bigwig of the Nazi party, bald Dr. Lammers is a typical oldtime Prussian official, wears a Prince Albert more often than his Storm Trooper's uniform. A Nationalist until 1932, in that year he broke with Alfred Hugenberg, threw his influence behind Adolf Hitler. When Hitler came to power in 1933 he rewarded Stooge Lammers with the job of Undersecretary of the Chancellery. Author of many fat books on legal questions, Dr. Lammers produced the legal opinion which, after Paul von Hindenburg's death...
...rode in limousines to shady Lazienki Park, were bowed out by chauffeurs, pitched in until soft hands were raw. Men went straight from shops and offices to dig by night. Musicians' guilds and actors' associations were given schedules for digging. Alexandra Pilsudska, widow of Poland's great Josef Pilsudski, broke ground. The Mayor of Warsaw dug, and so did Premier Slawoj Skladkowski, right in his own front yard (he directed workers to dig in the lawn, avoiding the flower beds...
...precise Ed Murrow in London, little INS-Man Thomas Grandin (who looks like Goebbels) in Paris, dignified William L. Shirer (who looks like H. V. Kaltenborn) in Berlin. The indefatigable Kaltenborn himself, CBS's one-man backfield during the Czech crisis, was in Europe when the current mixup broke out broadcast from London at 1:30 p.m. there on Wednesday, jumped a Clipper, broadcast from Manhattan at 6:30 next night. To spell Kaltenborn, CBS fortnight ago hired grey, smart ex-Timesstar Elmer Davis...
...brought his fiddle to the U. S. from Italy in 1905, when he was 17. Since he was 25 he has fiddled hard, taught, shot his hard-earned wad devising Sirela, based on the universally understood do, re, mi of the Guidonian musical scale. Today he is still a broke violinist, but his Sirela dictionaries in six languages have reached (at $2 to $5) 100,000 hands in a dozen or more countries, and his language is the subject of resolute or amused experiment by radio stations from Manhattan to Moscow...
When the first World War broke over Europe in 1914, the physicists at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory, famed citadel of pure science, scattered to Government Service, as they will doubtless do in 1939. But during the first World War the late revered Lord Rutherford, great formulator of the atom's internal structure, stuck to his post. He was on the verge of splitting the atom. When a committee of scientists sought his help on a method for submarine detection, he put them off by saying that if he could prove atomic disintegration it would be more important...