Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Third Century, Bishop Dionysius of Alexandria, Egypt wrote to a colleague: "Apollonia the parthenos presbytis [elderly virgin] was held in high esteem. These men seized her . . . and by repeated blows broke all her teeth. They then erected outside the city gates a pile of fagots and threatened to burn her alive if she refused to repeat after them impious words. Given, at her own request, a little freedom, she sprang quickly into the fire and was burned to death...
...Presently Cain's took to burning unclaimed junk at its own expense. Finally, on the last day of 1937, it folded secretly. Patsy Cain kept mum about it for six weeks, hoping for a saving miracle. Said he last week: ''I got out without being exactly broke, but if I had waited much longer...
...their news needs, the better labor papers rely on Federated Press, a non-profit labor news agency. When the great 1919 steel strike broke, labor news coverage was so undependable that 32 labor editors met in Chicago and founded Federated Press. Today, from a crowded single room a block off the radical vortex, Manhattan's Union Square, Federated's News Editor Harold Coy supplies news, features, comics and New York Times'?, Wide World pictures to 145 papers. Other chief agency for labor news is independent International Labor News Service, which usually sees things...
...Margery does not use her singular gifts to turn over a profit. Her control, who speaks and thinks for her when she is entranced, is "Walter," a deceased brother. Some years ago Margery asserted that fingerprints mysteriously produced in dental wax were Walter's-hence ectoplasmic. A furor broke loose when Prof. Harold Cummins, Tulane University anatomist, testified that the fingerprints were those of a living Boston dentist...
Carter Coal Co. of Coalwood, W. Va. is pleased with itself because it brought the suit which broke the original Guffey Coal Act in the Supreme Court. Carter Coal Co. is now out to duplicate this feat with the Guffey-Vinson Coal Act. This Act set up a seven-man national Bituminous Coal Commission in Washington, with the major purpose of creating minimum prices for soft coal. In a city where frustrated bickering is a fine art, the Bituminous Coal Commission set a new high before it finally produced its first set of minima two months ago (TIME...