Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Einaudi told how the king was forced to issue an edict on February 7, 1848, granting the constitutional government Cavour advocated, when a revolution broke out in Austrian dominated Piedmont in that year. Cavour's greatest work took place when the preparations were made for the inception of the democratic system of a Senate and Chamber of Deputies. At this time Cavour was the only figure of the day to work on the specific problems involved, and by his efforts and wide knowledge gained by studying first-hand the parliamentary bodies in England and France, he brought the new system...
...consecration, the 25th of his chancellorship of the University of the South at Sewanee. A onetime vice president of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce, he has quietly refrained from splashing the front pages of newspapers with his social and economic views. But last week this venerable churchman broke his silence and boldly plumped for "wise interference of Government in control of private business." Said...
...Viewing this as a religious portent, Mrs. Bennett told her neighbors about it. A wave of excited piety overtook Couch. To Mrs. Bennett's home went visitor after visitor, to emit fervent prayers. When, in a fit of devout jitters, a female preacher dropped the egg and broke it, Mrs. Bennett succeeded in gluing enough pieces on another egg so that the words were still visible. Said Mrs. Bennett: "The egg was put here for some good reason. Why it was sent to us I don't know, but there is no need for the children...
...another. Should TIME hand The March of Time over to one of the big distributing systems? Contrary to orthodox advice, TIME decided to take a chance on doing its own distributing through an "independent" distributor, First Division Exchanges, Inc. Vice President David L. Loew of Loew's Inc. broke the ice by being the first to contract for The March of Time for his chain. Other potent chains-Balaban & Katz, Poli-New England, Fox West Coast-followed suit, taking the monthly March of Time release at one of the highest prices ever paid for a non-feature film...
...take a hand in the processes of history, attempted to bring T. V. Soong, brother of Madame Sun Yatsen, from Shanghai to Hankow, offered to smuggle Fanny Borodin out of Peking. No longer the impassive newshawk, Sheean, when he covered the Jewish-Arab conflict in the Holy Land, broke down completely, took sides violently, and learned conclusively that he was "no longer a newspaper man." What journalism has lost, the quality magazines have gained. Mr. Sheean has become a "personality" in his own right...