Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make an innocuous speech to the Pennsylvania Society. He might as well have stayed in Washington. When he finished speaking in New York, the master of ceremonies asked: "Is it any wonder that we are proud and happy to have this man as the next president-" The audience broke into wild applause, after which the master of ceremonies finished, lamely: "-of Columbia University...
...days later, the Foreign Ministers' conference broke up in complete disagreement...
...since the 1929 St. Valentine's Day massacre. It began when a blue-jawed ex-convict named Tom Daley marched into a South Side garage with two pals and killed an old friend who had turned stool pigeon. The trio then loaded four witnesses into a car. Daley broke the monotony of a long drive along icy roads by shooting them and shoving them out. When the last target was gone he went calmly to bed. The cops woke him up and mowed him down. too. The score: four dead, two wounded...
Bills of Production. Under the attack, publicity-shy Sosthenes Behn broke a tradition of more than 20 years. He called a press conference to explain matters. The lack of dividends, said he, was caused by the company's hoarding of cash against possible loss on its foreign assets. He pointed out that l.T. & T. had paid off $120 million in debts in the last 15 years. Last year's loss was entirely the result of production problems in Federal Telephone & Radio Corp., a U.S. manufacturing subsidiary...
...year in which the flight into the past was accelerated in fiction and nonfiction. But current anxieties broke through. A book called Peace of Mind was the biggest non-fiction seller of the year, a reflection not so much of its own merit as of the numbers of Americans seeking the assurances and affirmations of religion...