Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain and France broke through the German lines in the fifth year of the War. If the U. S. fails to break through the building line in the fifth year of Depression, most economists believe that the result will inevitably be Inflation akin to revolution...
...stood two U. S. civic experts, Albert Lepawsky, named by the State Department as a U. S. delegate to the International Union of Cities Convention in Lyons, France, and Secretary Howard P. Jones of the National Municipal League. When they failed to salute the Nazi swastika, a Storm Trooper broke ranks and rushed up to them with doubled fist...
Japan's rebuttal to Comrade Rudy last week was drastic if not hysterical. Tokyo papers broke out in a rash of charges that Soviet employes of C. E. R. have been burning themselves out of their own railway stations, wrecking their own trains to spite Manchukuo...
...from Hour-Havenne, Belgium one dawn last week rose Stratonauts Max Cosyns and Neere van der Elst, soared nearly ten miles, broke no records, obtained scientific data, sent out an SOS when their wireless developed defects, scared half the world into thinking they were dead, drifted 1,100 mi. in 14 hr. across five countries, landed safe & sound at Zinovlje, Jugoslavia...
...Hunt Morgan, Alabama-born (1825), was a member of an aristocratic Kentucky family. At 21 he first saw action in the Mexican War, liked it so much that when he went home he founded the Lexington Rifles, which attracted all the young bloods in town. When the Civil War broke, Morgan and his "terrible men" were ready. Morgan was a regular officer, and took orders (when he felt like it) from his superiors, but the North persisted in regarding him as an irregular, capable of every atrocity from horse-stealing to killing the wounded. Biographer Swiggett says Morgan obeyed...