Word: broking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came, and the SS guards had fled . . . the people from the neighborhood, joined by D.P.s and liberated inmates of the Dachau camp, stormed the party buildings in search of scarce items. When all the food and liquor, and much of the furniture, had been carted off, they broke into the air-raid cellars where the paintings were stored, climbing over stacks of Panzerfaust grenades...
Next day, a squall broke over the head of Judge Samuel H. Kaufman. California's Representative Richard M. Nixon demanded an investigation "to determine his fitness to serve on the bench." Cried Nixon: "His prejudice for the defense and against the prosecution was so obvious and apparent that the jury's 8-to-4 vote for conviction frankly came as a surprise to me." Illinois' Freshman Congressman Harold Velde, an ex-FBI agent, joined in: he cited six specific examples* of Judge Kaufman's actions which he said "bordered on misconduct." Nixon thought the Un-American...
...week's prize for hotbox rhetoric went to Alexander Fell Whitney, 76-year-old president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. Anybody who voted for the Senate's new Taft labor bill, cried he, "broke faith with democracy and followed in the goose step of Naziism...
...Cabot decided to run the blockade. Hands in pockets (to avoid any possible charges of having used violence), Cabot advanced to the door; the workers refused to let him pass. "There is nothing we can do," said Mr. Cabot and turned back, hands still in his pockets. His staff broke out K rations...
...like many Zionists, he fought in the British army against the Axis, rose to be a major. When the war with the Arabs broke out, Tobiansky, with the full approval of Haganah, kept his civilian job in the British electric light company in Jerusalem. He also commanded a secret Haganah airbase outside the city. He was a quiet man with a slight paunch, who liked to sit in Jerusalem's Cafe Vienna with his wife and some friends, sipping beer...