Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sooner was Elliott home than he had an automobile collision. He broke two teeth, his wife was cut & bruised...
Last year Kahin was chairman of the Student Union's Foreign Affairs Committee. As he and a number of friends felt the need of more "independence of action", thy broke away from the Union in September and formed this entirely independent association...
...mass-production industries, steel, rubber, autos, etc., it accomplished nothing. Lesser complaints were that unions were arbitrarily run by executives, that new members pouring in were frequently denied votes (mostly because new members threatened the complicated structure of union benefits that old members had accumulated). First peace negotiations broke down because A. F. of L. officials insisted that C. I. O. unions return with the same status they had held before the split. But when A. F. of L. agreed in effect to accept them as they now are, the last big obstacle to peace, so far as I.L.G.W.U...
...Hays Office has definitely begun to unbend, gentlemen, and it is high time someone broke forth with a few congratulatory huzzahs. "Honeymoon in Bali," the latest case in point, has Madeleine Carroll; it has faint glimmers of Bali; and it has a script that sometimes scintillates. Of course, it does have Fred MacMurray, too; and it is burdened with a plot; but such things seem to be inevitable. Only when the Message becomes too obvious does the pace sag; Miss Carroll, it seems, has planned her whole life with the mathematical precision of an M. I. T. graduate, and must...
...guts. Goodman didn't change his style to get to the top--he stuck to his guns and starved far longer than Shaw to get to the top. Count Basie played at $18 a week for six years before getting anywhere. Even sweet bands like Sammy Kaye were broke, but didn't bellyache. The show business demands an eye for an eye, and Shaw, after having fired the musicians that stuck to him in the thin days, decided that the role of a Hamletian martyr committing public hari-kari was better than facing the music of a non-tinkling cash...