Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British deference to Raja Brooke kept the story out of staid London papers and off the cables. Last week it broke as irrepressible picture services showed the world Raja Brooke's daughter and her bridegroom cutting their jazz wedding cake...
...Evanston, Ill., ten bishops and 40 ministers and laymen agreed upon an irenicon which they publicly hoped would result in a merger of the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Protestant Church which split off in 1828 because of doctrine and administration, and the Methodist Episcopal Church. South which angrily broke away in 1845 because of slavery...
...months ago infantile paralysis broke out along tidewater North Carolina. At first the number of cases seemed no more than natural for the season. But the disease crept north and west until an epidemic was undeniable. Last month it moved into Virginia. Fortnight ago it splattered into the District of Columbia (TIME...
...picture of Floyd Bostwick Odium, is the caption: "Manages to get his hands on everything that makes money." Starting as an obscure chaser of ambulance chasers in Utah, lean, sandy-haired Floyd Odium got his hands on $14,000,000 in cash and quick assets just before the market broke in 1929. He sat on his money until 1930, then quietly began placing his bets. Result: Floyd Odium is Depression's No. 1 phenomenon and his Atlas Corp., with assets of $110,000,000, the biggest investment trust in the land...
...York the common stock of Macy's, Best's, Allied Stores, Federated Department Stores and other retail houses broke into new high ground. In high good humor the National Retail Dry Goods Association, summarizing a round-robin of retail opinion, declared: "If the present forecasts for retailing in the fall of 1935 are in any way realized, we shall experience the best fall season since...