Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Refugee children refuse to listen when their schoolmates tune in Adolf Hitler's broadcasts to the U. S. One little girl at Manumit could not be persuaded to take off her underwear when she went to bed, had nightmares in which she dreamed that German storm troopers broke into her room. A boy constantly drew pictures of machine guns, tanks, people shooting Hitler...
...short was kept open until the price permitted it also to be closed out at a profit. Since the ever-normal-granary program was expected to stabilize wheat prices in a narrow range, the scheme visualized a steady realization of profits Apparently working all right until the wheat market broke a solid 30 points in 1938 the scheme, like Secretary Wallace's, proved something less than infallible...
...celebrities whom Mrs. Wilson did not warm to were Queen Marie of Rumania, who referred to her "passionate" daughter Ileana as "my love child," and Britain's Margot Asquith, who struck "matches as I have seen certain men do, on their own anatomy." > Even before Woodrow Wilson broke with Secretary of State Lansing and Colonel House, Mrs. Wilson was convinced that both were disloyal. When she called House a "jellyfish" for making concessions at the Peace Conference during Wilson's absence, Woodrow Wilson answered: "Well, God made jellyfish, so, as Shakespeare said about a man, therefore...
...seventh game, and the next set was on. For the first four games of this, Perry held the redhead even with a great and foxy effort, but Budge had too much for him. That set ended 6-3. The next ended 6-0. Perry made 67 errors, never once broke Budge's service, had not only lost his Indian sign but his vaunted forehand. But he offered no alibi. Said he: "I never got my head above water...
When a lawyer named Carlton Cole Magee bought the Albuquerque morning Journal from Albert Bacon Fall and friends in 1920, Senator Fall with childish candor told him most of New Mexico's political secrets, incidentally confessed he was broke. With this information Lawyer Magee turned crusader, fought the Fall machine tooth & nail, was jailed for libel and mauled by political thugs, finally forced to sell his paper. It was a Magee telegram to Senator Thomas James Walsh concerning Fall's finances that made Teapot Dome a criminal case. By 1923 another Magee paper, the State Tribune, was foundering...