Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Father Divine. I have been married to my wife for 20 years happily as a poor person could be I have a daughter 19 years, in high school. W. Broadway, and 193rd or 96th St. and can't recall which one. and this particular person has almost broke up my home, telling my wife he is God and she will live always and never die. she turned in her insurance with the Metropolitan after 12 years, surrendered her policy claiming this man say they don't want no colored people in this insurance and will live forever., when...
...appearance in any such capitalist regalia as a dinner jacket would ruin all prospect of settlement. "Nonsense," Frankfurter replied and went to meet the strikers. While his associates looked on apprehensively, he held the conference, gradually succeeded in breaking down the antagonism of the strikers. When the meeting broke up substantial progress had been made...
...Albuquerque, N. Mex. a thief broke into the house of George Martin, stole a jacket, a mattress, a sheepskin coat, a pair of overalls. Next day he brought them back, left a note...
...swung the apple & pear-wine deal was Raymond Clendenin Miller of AAA. A native of Vincennes, Ind., Mr. Miller was preparing for his M. A. examinations at Catholic University when the War broke out. By the time his classmates were getting themselves fitted for graduating gowns, Mr. Miller was wearing an infantry lieutenant's uniform. He served with the 89th Division in France, later with the 160th U. S. Infantry Brigade. Back in Washington after the War, he operated three small cinema houses while studying for the foreign service at Georgetown...
Fortnight ago the "burley" markets opened. Prices again were down around 12? per lb., with poorer grades even lower. Disgruntled growers became angry. For four years during the 1920's they had a co-operative but it broke up when growers ceased to cooperate. During that time "nightriders" had killed some non-co-operators, destroyed the crops of others, smashed their windows. Kentucky growers threatened to start nightriding again. Governor Laffoon proclaimed a holiday. The Governors of Tennessee, Virginia, North Carolina followed suit in an effort to do for "burley" what a holiday had done for "bright...