Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Klein whacked Stewart with his stick. Furious, Stewart punched Klein's jaw. One of the referees separated the fighters, ordered them off the ice. When the referee turned his back, Stewart raised his stick with both hands and brought it down on Klein's head. The stick broke. Klein was carried off to the dressing room...
...Open Golf Champion, play his last round in the $12,500 Miami Biltmore Open tournament. Approaching the 17th green, Dutra and his gallery started across a wooden bridge over a canal that intersects the fairway just before the green. Amid a loud splitting of timber the bridge broke. With squeaks, yells, grunts, moans, Dutra and 20 members of the gallery were thrown into the water. Dutra clambered out, helped the others up the bank, lay down to rest for a moment, made a birdie 4 on the last hole, won first prize...
...young Walter Lohmann in his first Manhattan appearance, fell off his bicycle and broke his collarbone less than an hour after Jack Dempsey had fired the starting gun. Temperamental little Alfred Letourner, furious with his onetime teammate, harassed Marcel Guimbretiere mercilessly until that rider withdrew, 15 laps behind. For periodic sprints, spectators offered, instead of the customary $25, miscellaneous premiums: a dozen lobsters, a dinner with champagne, a set of tires, a red rose, a return bus ticket to Buffalo...
Another skeleton boldly rattled by Banker Baker was New York Title & Mortgage, a former subsidiary divorced before the guaranteed mortgage scandal broke. New York Title's rehabilitator is suing for various sums including dividends paid to the Manhattan Co. after the title company's capital was allegedly impaired. Mr. Baker did not seem worried...
...last year's annual meeting the young chairman of the $500,000,000 Bank of the Manhattan Co. broke all precedents by taking his shareholders into his full confidence. Asked by a startled stockholder why he did it, Chairman John Stewart Baker, 40, replied: "The spirit of the times...