Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...policeman, rather insolent, opened my boxes and dropped things on the road. I was not wearing my swastika. He snatched a photograph of Hitler from my arm, broke the back of the picture, then took us to the police station where officials from Prague examined me and my belongings. I was furious when they seized Hitler's portrait. Apparently they suspected me of propaganda work. A woman detective stripped me and even took off my stockings," was the Hon. Unity's story afterwards...
...Nazi secret political police headquarters. By special mandate his brother, Dr. Arthur Schuschnigg, former director of the Austrian Federal Broadcasting Co., went in for him at the altar. The Countess, holding a bouquet of yellow roses sent by her absentee groom, was solemnly married to the proxy, then broke open a note from the real thing: By this time we should be man and wife. This makes me extremely happy. A thousand kisses. Kurt...
...Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik in Washington. When it broke all house records, he decided to invest a little money in reconditioning. With a musical score and a few elementary sound effects, the picture opened in Boston three weeks ago. By last week, it was apparent even to Mr. Jensen that, whatever he had paid for it, his antique...
...excepted) continued to negotiate with the Attorney General's office for a consent decree. But the final draft proposed last fortnight by the companies' lawyers had so many complicated provisions that the jittery independents thought it was designed to give them even less business than usual. Negotiations broke off. Thurman Arnold had the criminal case reopened before a grand jury in Judge Thomas W. Slick's court at South Bend...
...State. Last year, Guntersville citizens, having decided they wanted TVA power, authorized Mayor E. H. Couch and City Attorney C. D. Scruggs to try to buy out Alabama Power's local distributing plant. The company would not sell. Messrs. Couch and Scruggs floated a $130,000 bond issue, broke ground for a municipal plant to distribute TVA power. The company, in turn, announced in a newspaper ad that it had "no plans for discontinuing its service...