Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senator's voice broke and he seemed close to tears as he said: "They were seeking to lay a trap for me." Brewster recovered his control and closed on a stentorian note: "Let the chips fall where they may. I cannot and will not yield to a campaign of this character...
...final day President Sean O'Kelly and his wife Phyllis drove into the grounds in an open landau, surrounded by an elegant escort of blue-&-gold uniformed hussars. Two of the horses pulling the landau, unnerved by the excitement of the occasion, reared, almost overturned the landau, broke loose and dashed off. The hussars scattered. Dubliners considered this incident alone made the show a success. When Eire's No. 1 Army band (conducted by a German) played God Save the King!, Eamon de Valera smiled sourly as he stood at attention in what used to be the royal...
...Boston, a midnight fire broke out in Mayor James Michael Curley's home, burned out the dining room. Estimated damage: $2,500. Nobody was home (His Honor was still doing six to 18 months for mail fraud...
...Managua, Nicaragua, Dictator and ex-President Anastasio Somoza watched a Nicaragua v. Cuba baseball game start falling to pieces as fighting broke out, restored order singlehanded in a characteristic way. He pulled out his gat and let go a couple of warning blasts...
...determined scientist always has new worlds to conquer. Professor Auguste Piccard, who broke the altitude record in a free balloon in 1932,* is nearly ready to try for the undersea depth record too. Last week 63-year-old Scientist Piccard told the North American Newspaper Alliance about the "bathyscaphe" (from the Greek for "depth ship"), his submarine balloon which will descend into the sea suspended from a steel and aluminum "gas bag" full of lightweight gasoline...