Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President named eight men to sit on the National Bituminous Coal Commission and Bituminous Coal Labor Board, shortly before a coal strike they were powerless to prevent broke (see p. 14). ¶Turning in his commission as Chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, Joseph Patrick Kennedy of Boston prepared to sail with his wife to put one of their sons in the London School of Economics, a daughter in a Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy...
...Chicago, a masked, kid-gloved gunman broke into the apartment of Orlando and Helen James, newlyweds, bound & gagged the groom, turned up the radio, beat the bride with a lead-studded whip, raped her three times, munched candy, departed chuckling...
...contents of the Cup did not disappoint Skipper Konow the next day but the outcome of the race did. Just before the starting gun, when it was too late for Konow to follow suit, Skipper Shields broke out a long-tailed Genoa jib and under it his boat outfooted Norna all the way around a windward and leeward course. Next day, in a light breeze that favored the defender, she won again, this time with four minutes to spare. The last race of the series was sailed on one of those muggy, misty afternoons when...
...grant a 5,000-peso bonus ($1,400) to each & every member of Congress, a proposal which President Cardenas had vetoed week before, despite the fact that Mexican custom sanctions such "tips" to obedient legislators. When the majority deputies sternly resisted this tempting bait, voted it down, hell suddenly broke loose in the chamber...
...Hughes's low-wing monoplane is equipped with a tremendous Wasp motor, a fuselage longer than the wingspan, a curious stilt-like landing gear which folds during flight. For two days Pilot Hughes had driven this big racer over the Santa Ana course. The first day he broke the landplane record with ease, lost the credit for it because of a technicality. The second day, he fulfilled all the requirements, had nearly finished when the mishap occurred. As he bent to inspect the damage, exuberant timers announced he had averaged 352.4 m.p.h.. needed only official confirmation...