Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lack of music, trumpeting and general fanfare became the subject of official notice today. C. Bascom Slemp, national committeeman from Virginia, broke in on a conference of the Hoover board of strategy today to suggest that something be done. 'Give 'em music,' Slemp pleaded, 'and they'll forget the depression...
...theatrical producer named W. Horace Schmidlapp, had long since disintegrated. So had her career. She was still working in B pictures, but she had lost her appeal at the box office. Her health was not good-she suffered from amoebic dysentery contracted overseas. There were rumors that she was broke...
Cried little (5 ft.) Right-Wing Leader Giuseppe Romka: "We have become just the boot cleaners of the Commtinists who -if the truth were known-are highly amused with our efforts to discover our soul." A voice from a back row broke in: "Not one soul, but three...
...three groups into which the convention broke were Romita's anti-Communists (27%), Nenni's proCommunists (31%), and an aimless, sullen middle-of-the-road group which wanted to avoid the unavoidable decision (42%). The middle-of-the-roaders won, but not before the pro-Communist party secretary, bearded, slate-eyed Lelio Basso, had told them...
...best to squirm out of a full-dress investigation. When SEC first asked for a quiet look at his records, he balked. Then the commission, still preserving a tactful silence in public, subpoenaed him to appear with his books. Tucker took his case to the newspapers and thus broke the news that SEC wanted to see what was going on in Tucker Corp. In full-page ads, with the air of a man whose patience is infinite, he said: "My associates and myself and the Tucker Corp. have been investigated time & again . . . Now once more we are being investigated...