Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit, matters came rapidly to a boil. Quiet, crafty Norman Matthews, the United Auto Workers' director for Chrysler plants, angrily broke off negotiations on his demand for a 30? raise and "fringe" benefits, called a strike for this week...
...Social Party had beefed that a new $6,850,000 subsidy to state schools meant discrimination against "free" schools, which are mostly Catholic (TIME, May 10). Socialist Spaak's common-sense solution in overwhelmingly Catholic Belgium: a consolation prize of $1,350,000 for "free" schools. But rebellion broke out among old Socialist anticlericals. Trumpeted brass-lunged Party President Max Buset: "We are asked to concede too much." He lined up other Socialist M.P.s, predicted that the Catholics-and Spaak-would back down...
...horse racing a try; Pa was dead against it. Ma won. Eddie began to gallop horses for Tom McCaffery, who paid him $15 a week and swore he'd never make a jockey. Eddie used to cry over the belittling he got. At 15 he was in Agua Caliente, broke and homesick, when he finally won his first race, on a four-year-old maiden named Eagle Bird. Then he drove up to Tanforan, Calif., to take a job with Clarence Davison, a "gypsy" horseman who taught him the ABCs of being a jockey...
Yesterday's race, postponed from Friday when Lowell broke an oar in a reversion to tactics first popularized by Quintus Fabius Maximus '00, was clocked at the respectable time of 4:15, sans tailwind...
Next day, with a lump on his ankle as big as a doorknob, heavy-set Henry Wittenberg warily circled a stringy young opponent, suddenly ankle-dragged him to the mat, and nailed him in 6:03. He won two more bouts by falls (in one, he accidentally broke his opponent's leg). In winning the final bout by a decision, against Minnesota's Verne Gagne, Wittenberg got his only black mark...