Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gesture to U. S. public opinion, the trial of Cleveland's Roiderer last week was the first trial before the People's Court to which foreign correspondents have ever been admitted. Present also was U. S. Consul Raymond H. Geist who had hired to defend dead-broke Roiderer a fashionable Berlin attorney...
...victories are always due to "magic." This year the magic was stranger than usual. Oxford, with the heaviest boat in history (183 lb.), outweighed Cambridge 3 lb. to a slide. Oxford's 200-lb. No. 4, P. R. S. Bankes, who rowed so hard in practice that he broke five oars, was given an oar with a half inch less leverage and a 6-inch blade. Furthermore, by a sporting arrangement which U. S. rowing coaches would find strange. Peter Haig-Thomas, whom experts held responsible for the string of Cambridge victories, this year changed sides, coached the Oxford...
Swimmers. Jack Medica has been recognized as the ablest middle-distance free-style swimmer in the U. S. since Johnny Weissmuller became a cinemactor. Peter Fick, last week's free-style sprint winner, 20 years old, 185 lb., broke Weissmuller 's 100-metre record last year. Third of last week's main Olympic hopes, unknown nationally until this winter, Adolph Kiefer is a 16-year-old Chicagoan, trained by his father, onetime swimming instructor in the German Army...
...year, he was discovered by scouts for the St. Louis Cardinals. After pitching one game for the Cardinals, he was sent to Houston for a year of seasoning, rejoined the team in 1932. For the last three years he has led the National League in strikeouts. In 1933, he broke a record held jointly by Frank Hahn, Christy Mathewson, Rube Waddell and Nap Rucker by striking out 17 batters in one game. His 30 victories last season made him the National League's first 30-game winner since...
...detail. While the war was still only imminent, many a Northern businessman tried to collect his Southern debts. One of them got this reply: "I promise to pay, five minutes after demand, to any northern Abolitionist, the same coin in which we paid John Brown." When the war actually broke, Secretary of State Seward's first suggestion was to reunite the Union by declaring war on France and Spain. Old General Winfield Scott hit nearer the truth than anyone by hazarding the opinion that 300,000 men under good generals might put down the rebellion in three years...