Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large group of countrymen with a common trade. No one knows how the meetings started, but they have been going on for 50 years. Last week, after appropriate ceremonies, the Irishmen deposited their six bodies in the Mt. Calvary cemetery, had a small drop to celebrate the occasion, broke up till...
George Orson Welles (the George is for George Ade, a family friend) is the son of an inventor and a concert pianist. His father, Richard Head Welles, invented among other things: 1) a mechanical dishwasher which broke all the dishes, 2) a collapsible picnic set which the Government bought in large quantities for doughboys and which, according to Son Orson, "contributed greatly to the horrors...
...just a freak, after all-a child who could not feel pain. For the Bulletin told of two little Baltimore boys and a girl who were like the Spartan. Johns Hopkins' Drs. Frank Rodolph Ford & Lawson Wilkins discovered them, found that they stubbed toes, barked shins, broke bones, chewed fingers raw, lifted hot plates off stoves - all without complaint. Even when the tender Achilles tendon (just above the heel) "is squeezed these children make no protest and show no sign of pain," reported the doctors. When touched with a pin they can feel the difference between the point...
...broke the careers of most of the men who had anything to do with it. Eight anarchists were tried for murder, and although it was never determined who threw the bomb, four were hanged, three got life and one committed suicide. In 1893 the three who got life were pardoned by the pale, homely, contradictory John Peter Altgeld, Governor of Illinois, prison reformer, idealist, lawyer, wealthy real-estate operator and builder of one of Chicago's first skyscrapers. Last week Altgeld's story was told in a 496-page volume which gave the governor's reasons...
...curious to learn what connection there was between the Delta deal and the recent sale of Burco ownership to a group of Canadians. Quiet investigations by Mr. Bennett last week involved questioning men from the big brokerage house of Paine. Webber & Co. and big Guaranty Trust Co. Wall Street broke out with a rash of rumors about other investment trusts...