Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result. At Warren, R. I., 1,000 strikers stormed a mill after a policeman struck a union official. At Augusta, Ga., two Enterprise Mill pickets were wounded and one killed when a policeman, trampled by strikers, fired from the ground. At Bridgeport, Pa., strikers forced entrance to a mill, broke a woman's leg. At Greenville, S. C. one man and four women were clubbed, kicked and mauled in scrimmages with deputies. At Fall River, Mass., Radical Ann Burlak. "The Red Flame,'' was forbidden to hold a meeting. In New Bedford, Mass. 3,000 pickets attacked the main gate...
General Johnson's ubiquitous assistant, Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson, had been in Manhattan last week stitching an NRA label on an $800 blue fox scarf to signalize the codification of the fur industry when the story broke that her brother-in-law had a $6,800 NRA job in Washington. Brother-in-law's name was John Wilshear. He had been treasurer of a Brooklyn shoe company. When it shut down several months ago he went to Washington and into "training to take charge of the leather section of NRA." Rent with internal politics, NRA headquarters began to buzz with...
Pandemonium broke loose below decks after the shutoff. Men fought like beasts to get out of the hold. Three times Oiler Antonio Georgia started up the narrow stairs and three times his legs were caught and he was dragged down...
Straightway the ring of Communists broke into mournful Red songs, boos and shouts. Then they dug into paper bags and sent a hail of ripe tomatoes whistling at Sir Oswald. His voice rising to a near-scream, Fascist Mosley replied: "Behind these hooligans are alien Jewish financiers, supplying them with palm...
...session last June passed a pointed resolution calling on the ABA to nominate for high executive positions men "able to command the confidence not only of bankers but of the public at large." Last week with the annual ABA convention but a month away, the Hecht opposition again broke into the open. Manhattan bankers, who are supposed to be opposition leaders, politely pooh-poohed such talk, but Banker Hecht felt obliged to state: "I will accede to the presidency. ... I have no intention of withdrawing...