Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Northern hotel in Glacier Park, he was housed, fed and given two or three dollars a day. He also did very well by selling to visitors his auto-graph-a crude drawing of two guns and a calf. Last autumn, however, aged 62. he fell from his horse and broke a leg. Last week Death-as it must to all men. red, white, black, brown or yellow-came to Two Guns White Calf. Press releases told of the death of the "Nickel" Indian, told how medicine men had offered up prayers to the Sun God. Natos, told how his people...
...Seattle, city of red hot politics, was in an unhappy financial state. Its credit was at low ebb and its tax anticipation warrants were hardly salable. In that condition it chose for mayor Lawyer John Fairfax Dore who, campaigning on a program of drastic economy, broke all records for vote-getting (TIME, March 21, 1932). Last week Seattle's mayoralty choice rolled around again and Mayor Dore stood for reelection...
...never made any sales." In Europe the Switzes traveled extensively and lived very quietly, registering at such eminently respectable institutions as the University Union in Paris. They had a small apartment in the Rue de la Chaussee 'd'Antin near the Opera. Into that apartment French detectives broke last December to find, so they said, a pile of strange documents hidden behind a bureau, 19,000 francs in cash, and a chronometer and two magnifying glasses bound together.* Crying loudly that they had been framed by the French counterespion age service, the famed Denxieme Bureau, the Switzes were...
...runaway was to be deported, Greek detectives called at his apartment, but Samuel Insull was not there. Immediately a storm of rumors broke. From the Cabinet of Premier Tsaldaris to the couscous merchants on the sidewalks every Athenian had a story of his own. Samuel Insull had been smuggled out of the hotel in a bonnet and shawl, disguised as a charwoman. Samuel Insull had been spirited out of the country by a gang of Rumanians. Samuel Insull had been hauled to the top of a cliff in a basket to take refuge with the monks of Mount Athos. Finally...
That was quickly done, and once again, like crafty Odysseus, foxy Samouel Insullos sailed the wine-dark ocean past the isles of Greece. The end of adventure was not yet. The Maiotis' wheezy engines broke down outside the harbor and took many hours to repair. Then she ran into a heavy storm, was forced to take shelter in the lee of an island. Never a good sailor, Samuel Insull tossed sickishly about on his little freighter reeking of stale oil and garlic and whimpered that shiploads of U. S. pirates were lying in wait to kidnap...