Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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National Pastime. In Benicia, Calif., Mrs. Exorah Tucker, 67, was treated for injuries she suffered while playing baseball. In Zanesville, Ohio, Charles King, 80, broke his hip at batting practice...
Henry Wallace, speaking to 19,000 people in Madison Square Garden the night after the news broke, triumphantly announced: "The two letters assume what we have long contended-that the wartime cooperation between the two great powers can be rebuilt . . ." He himself had written an open letter to Stalin along just those lines, he declared...
Then violence broke out. In South St. Paul there were bloody clashes as non-strikers ran the gauntlet of massed pickets. About 300 pickets had formed a wall, eight deep, near the Swift & Co. plant's main gate. Sheriff Norman Dieter and a force of 21 cops moved up to read the law: a court order had set a limit of 18 pickets. When no one moved, the sheriff rammed his force against the wall. A few minutes later the bloody, battered cops retreated...
Shirts On. That night, across the Mississippi river in Newport, Minn., about 200 raiders armed with clubs broke into the Cudahy Packing Co. plant, smashed equipment, turned loose more than 100 squealing pigs, then beat up company guards and maintenance...
...royal couple. Along the boulevards the crowds were solid: young men with girls on their shoulders, midinettes who buzzed about Elizabeth's elegantly homely clothes, and elderly gentlemen with Legion of Honor rosettes in their frayed buttonholes, silver-topped canes swinging gently in their gloved hands. People broke police barriers, crying "Serrez-moi la main!" (Let me shake your hand). One gouty old woman was perched atop a stepladder which her equally gouty old husband kept from toppling over. "Now she steps out of the car, like a queen," the woman reported. "And the Duke, quel beau gosse!" (what...