Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Statements. He called a White House meeting, summoning Secretary Marshall; Loy Henderson, the State Department's Middle East expert; and David K. Niles, the President's special adviser on Palestine. But the meeting exploded into violent argument. Niles is pro-partition. Henderson is anti-partition. Mr. Truman broke it up by walking out, bitterly declaiming: "This gets us nowhere. All I want is a statement I can read tomorrow at my press conference...
...officials and longshoremen had paid much attention to them. But last week, when the 10,000-ton Soviet steamship Chukotka tied up at a Jersey City pier and began loading $282,000 worth of industrial machinery (which had been licensed for export by the Department of Commerce), all hell broke loose...
...panic spread into the North and West. Labor leaders, anti-Wallace liberals and machine bosses broke out with anti-Truman fever. The fever, partly induced by disgruntlement over the Administration's blundering on Palestine, was especially virulent in such pivotal states as New York, Illinois and California. In these states even the best of local Democratic candidates had small hope of winning on a ticket topped by Harry Truman's name...
Sophie Tucker, 64, everlasting "Last of the Red-Hot Mammas," trotted stoutly into a veterans' hospital in Coral Gables, Fla. to spread a little cheer. In the course of the proceedings, square-rigged Sophie lost her footing, went hard aground, broke two toes, departed the hospital in a wheelchair...
With five minutes to go, Coach Hickey mercifully took Macauley out of the game, two minutes later put in his scrubs. Final score: 65-52. Then the Billikens joyfully broke training with banana cream pie a la mode', went off to an all-night bowling alley for a little exercise...