Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bone fell down an elevator shaft and almost broke his neck, which remained stiff and now gives him a look as rigid as his principles. The chief of these, public ownership of utilities, he has fought for ever since he worked his way to a law degree and was admitted to the bar in 1911. While practicing law for such clients as Tacoma's Central Labor Council and the Port of Tacoma, Bone tried to clear the way for publicly owned utilities, using any political broom that came to hand. He has been a candidate on the Socialist, Triple...
...final quarter, the Bellboys took the ball over for a touchdown on three plays. Norm Blotner broke loose on a fake spinner around left send for 55 yards. Two plays later, Dick Lewis knifed over left tackle for one of the most brilliant runs seen this season, fighting and spinning loose from five Dunster tacklers for a touchdown...
Frank Harnden broke through a strong Tech defense to break a 3 to 3 tie and turn the tide ten seconds before the end of the last extra period in the Crimson booters' match with M. I. T. yesterday afternoon which put the Crimson soccer team at the top of the New England League, in a 4-3 victory...
Among his many roles, Franklin Roosevelt sometimes plays a sort of policeman, signaling stop & go to commodity prices. Year and a half ago he signaled stop with such success that prices broke the world around. Three weeks ago the "White House Spokesman" warned that certain commodity prices must not be allowed to run away. Copper, for example, should not be allowed to reach 18? again. Though copper has often been a runaway (in 1916 reaching an all-time high of 31.89?), it got no higher than 17? last year, then dropped to 9? this summer...
Last year White House newshounds took Franklin Roosevelt to task for granting New York Timesman Arthur Krock an exclusive interview. Meekly the President put his "head on the block," promised it wouldn't happen again. Last week the Times's Anne O'Hare McCormick again broke into the White House manger, carried off another exclusive interview running to three and a half Sunday Magazine pages. Growled Earl Godwin, president of the White House Correspondents' Association: "I wonder how many necks the President...