Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was any further testimony needed to establish that the Undersecretary of Agriculture had not been told, he gave it himself. When the battle of Cedar Creek began, Sheridan was 20 miles away, but in this case Tugwell was 1,000 miles away. He broke off his recuperation. Up from the South at break of day he came by airplane, went in haste to the White House door. But he came too late. The President had already made his stand plain to newshawks: he had no intention of intervening, the shakeup in AAA was an "internal matter...
...Minister of Labor last year brands National Government a sham. To Conservatives nothing seems more right and proper. They assume that Oliver Stanley is briskly, but not too briskly, on his way to becoming Prime Minister.* Last week he stumbled, and swank Mayfair was pained. In Sheffield fierce riots broke out, all because the new Minister of Labor was not quite clicking...
...allotted to undergraduates and alumni, were sold on issue. A few were resold for as much as $20 each. In the Naval Academy's McDonough Hall the crowd sat in nervous silence, because intercollegiate rules do not permit cheering when bouts are in progress. Once, when spectators broke the rule, the referee stopped the bout...
When the War broke out, the Fowler brothers lied about their ages (H. W. was 57, Frank 45), were accepted for service. After a short tour of duty in the trenches their deception was discovered and they were sent to the rear to heave coal, wash dishes. But the Fowler brothers were no ordinary soldiers: they addressed a strong and lucid complaint to the authorities in which they suggested "that such conversion of persons who undertook purely from patriotic motives the duties of soldiers on active service into unwilling menials or servants is an incredibly ungenerous policy on the part...
When Napoleon finally refused to have anything to do with Sir Hudson, hid himself in the house, the Governor ordered a luckless officer to report daily on his prisoner's presence. For weeks the officer and Napoleon played hide-&-seek. After fruitless days of snooping, the desperate man broke into Longwood one day, caught Napoleon in the bathtub, was pursued down passageways with royal imprecations. When Napoleon, for something to do, had a sunken garden built, the excavations to Sir Hudson's fevered mind, looked like earthworks...