Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trainer Wandle cut all plays short for fear of injuries, but Stan Fuller and Strat Morteon broke loose on plays that would have tallied had they not been called back. Coach Ducky Pond refused to make any statement but feeling here is that the game will be close...
...Septuagenarian Patrick A. Nash, and State's Attorney Thomas Courtney, picked Edward Joseph Kelly, chief engineer of Chicago's Sanitary District, to be Mayor. Big, red-haired Irishman Kelly and his political friends did not have an easy time. The Hearst papers strewed their path with thorns, broke the news that Mayor Kelly had to make a tax settlement to the Federal Government of $105,000 because of $450,000 income which he did not report at a time when he was drawing $15,000 a year salary from his official jobs...
...model Douglas transport plane zipped across the U. S. from Los Angeles to Newark in 12 hr. 3 min. It made but one stop-at Kansas City. Although it failed by nearly two hours to equal the coast-to-coast time of Roscoe Turner's racing plane, it broke the transport record and clearly showed that a 12-hr, transcontinental passenger service is possible, if not yet practical...
...could make him an eight-oared shell in six weeks, to be ready for the Yale race. The usual time is at least nine weeks, but I got busy and finished her just about on time. It was the first eight I ever built, and the crew broke the record in it though they didn't win the race. I've heard it said that it's the best boat they've ever had in the house...
...Last Day began with a 50-gun salute at 9 o'clock in the morning. Whistles blew and bells rang for a full five minutes throughout Chicago. An aerial bomb broke over the Lagoon as the day's 10,000th visitor pushed through the turnstiles. Two bombs signaled the arrival of the 20,000th. Buglers posted on "L" platforms throughout the Loop blew long & loud at high noon. Schools closed. Early in the afternoon a bewildered grey-haired grandmother was whisked off to the Administration Building where, as the 16,000,000th visitor of 1934, she was presented with...