Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mexico but a buster of the best-laid plans of politicians. In that machine-ridden State he won a following of Spanish-American voters, of War veterans, of political liberals, all of whose languages he spoke, whose interests he championed. Although a nominal Republican he fought and broke Albert Fall's Republican machine. In 1924 he helped elect a Democratic Senator, Sam Bratton, and in 1926 a Republican Governor, Richard C. Dillon. Following year Governor Dillon named him to a vacancy in the U. S. Senate. As a Republican Senator he fought the Hoover policies in Washington...
Once his voice broke: "I have been blessed these five and twenty years in having ever beside me my dear wife, of whom you have spoken so kindly." King George took a sip of water and finished his speech unmoved...
...Jones dropped the first set 4-6. Steadying in the second he sailed through 6-2. The third was started off with Jones breaking through Tilney's service after having taken his own easily. Then Tilney pulled up to 3 all; four all, 5-4, and Jones broke through again to take the match...
With the score tied 4-4 at the beginning of the last match, Lowman and Armstrong of the first-year tennis team broke the deadlock by taking two straight sets from the Exeter netmen for a 5-4 victory on the Exonian's home courts Saturday...
...questions went from bad to worse. The brilliant young questioner rubbed his bony knuckles in ghoulish glee as a cold sweat broke out on the brow of the harried candidate. Finally came the climax, a question to which no-one in the world knows the answer, except, perhaps, one member of the examining committee...