Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with his speaking campaign. In one of the pictures, The River, he demonstrates what the cutting over of forest lands has meant to the Mississippi Valley in the way of worn-out land, eroded top soil and ever recurrent floods. In the other film, The Plow that Broke the Plains, the tragic story of the Dust Bowl is developed; Amlie outlines what has been and still remains to be done in soil conservation efforts. Here is a new approach in campaign methods, it appears: education and good manners in place of muckraking and maligning the opposing candidate...
...Alsace-Lorraine. Sir Neville Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless urgent matters are at stake. Bonds of virtually all the Great Powers weakened in London. There fiscal authorities put aside their strained optimism of the past few weeks to agree "the peril...
...Beverly Hills, energetic old Cinemactress May Robson, 73, tripped over her pet dog, broke...
...Bespectacled Sydney Wooderson, 124-Ib. Briton who holds the world's record for a mile (outdoors): a new world's record for a half-mile (1:49.2); at Hotspur Park, London. On the way, Runner Wooderson also broke the record for 800 metres...
...conductor of the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra, was confronted by one Charles E. McDonald, estranged husband of her companion and maid. Without much ado, Mr. McDonald shot her three times with an automatic. Mrs. Krueger was removed to a hospital, Charles McDonald to a police station. His explanation: "She broke up my home...