Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year all Canada has waited for the Hon. Henry Herbert Stevens, pinko-minded Conservative, to set up his own party. Mr. Stevens broke spectacularly with his old friend Premier Richard Bedford Bennett over "The Pamphlet," a Stevens expose of too ruggedly individualistic Canadian business practices (TIME, Nov. 5). Next he meekly accepted Bennett's reproofs, meekly resigned as Bennett's Minister of Trade & Commerce. Last week with elections scarcely two months off, Henry Herbert Stevens at last announced that he was prepared to challenge Canada's two old guard parties, the Conservatives and the Liberals, with...
...games in which to lose, baseball experts, forgetful as usual, unanimously picked them to win. With shocking disregard for rudimentary baseball amenities, Polo Grounds ground-keepers set about enlarging the runways in the stands for World Series crowds. The Giant's pitching staff, previously impaired when Freddy Fitzsimmons broke his elbow fortnight ago, was promptly diminished to the danger point when Rookie Clydell Castleman, who had won eight games, lost two, broke his hand in batting practice. One major reason for the Giants' success so far this season, despite overconfidence and bad luck, has been their large, placid...
...only Laborites and Liberals but also Conservative henchmen of the Prime Minister broke away to heap their wrath at popular Stanley Baldwin's latest bumble upon unpopular Ramsay MacDonald's luckless son Malcolm. Stormed Conservative M.P. Sir Arnold Wilson: "Was His Majesty's pleasure on this subject ascertained...
...wheat pool take snuff, the whole world sneezes. Last week in seven major markets on three continents grain traders were confounded by the most extraordinary piece of news about the Dominion pool since it was started in 1924. The moment the news was known a dark storm of selling broke over the Chicago, Minneapolis and Kansas City markets, tumbling prices the limit of 5¢ in one day. In Liverpool, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Winnipeg, wheat also went down in confusion. Other commodities, notably corn and rye, slid off sharply. The news: After weathering years of economic crises, farm unrest, public...
...Lowie. Had he resisted or taken her back, he would have been forever disgraced. When Gray-bull stole a wife in turn, her last husband, ravaged with grief, became a Crazy-Dog- Wishing-to-Die, pledged to court death. Dismayed, Gray-bull returned his new wife, whereupon the husband broke his pledge to die, was always looked on with contempt...