Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mayor & Mrs. Godfrey J. Ott of McGuffey, Ohio were tossed out of bed at 3 o'clock one morning last week when a dynamite bomb ripped off the south side of their bungalow. The explosion also broke practically every window in town and rudely awakened most of the 710 other residents of McGuffey...
...eloquence. On the Democratic side George Creel, Wartime Chief of Propaganda, backed by William Gibbs McAdoo; Justus Wardell, oldtime politician, and a handful of others all called to Californians to heed them. But the man whom Californians heeded?favorably and unfavorably?had no machine backing, was no politician and broke all the rules of politics. He was journalist, pamphleteer, reformer, and his name was Upton Sinclair...
...political ambitions has Kansas' oldtime editor Ed Howe, now 81, who last week broke silence in an interview published in Country Home: "I never liked the Roosevelt type of man. They're too much for show, too quick on the trigger for safety, too cozy with idealistic leadership. The antics of the present Administration are the craziest I've ever seen. As a man who has had to run a business, I'll admit that you have to experiment a little, take a little risk; but I do object to a lot of new thought politicians up in Washington taking...
...buzz saw, Fong's propeller sheared off his plane's tail, sent him whirling and whining 2,000 ft. to death on a tenement roof. Fong, his propeller shattered, glided two miles to a vacant lot in Queens, stubbed his landing gear in a ditch, turned over, broke his arm. In a Brooklyn morgue that day wept Wong's white, U. S.-born wife...
...told, have lived in isolation. Last year the freighter Chelyuskin, commanded by hardy, hairy Professor Otto Tulyevich Schmidt, was sent to take the colonists off their icebound island, deposit a new shift of weather observers. The ice pack closed in on the Chelyuskin in September, hugged it all winter, broke it in February. One man was lost but doughty Professor Schmidt transferred the remaining 101 persons in his charge to an ice floe, whence they were removed in a spectacular series of airplane rescues (TIME, April 23 et ante). In the ensuing storm of enthusiasm the forlorn Wrangel colonists were...