Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started out with him as a tumbler, we did a tumbling act for a while--he and I; another fellow joined us. I played the old Washington St. Olympia, here, we played the BFT Theatre, we played the Scollay Square Olympia, we played the Portland, Maine, we broke the act in here before we went to New York. We worked around here about 25-30 weeks and all through New England, and we got the act all set and finished, all ready for New York, when we went to New York with it we started working around New York...
Continental went broke. You see, a lot of the bankers in Chicago were behind Continental, a lot of the racketmen were behind Continental, they were afraid of being exposed, cause they were really cheating on the take of money out there, they were taking in millions a year, millions and millions, and weren't declaring all the money, and rather than face prison they blew up the whole thing, and set fire to the thing, and a couple of people were murdered, and there was quite a hullaballoo about the whole thing, out in Chicago. Well, that finished up Continental...
...never do it again, not what I had to go through. I just went broke, I had no more money left. I was getting all the money I was getting from other sources, a few dollars here and a few dollars there, all going into the paper, and I finally wound up $25,000 in debt, which I still am, a little more than that, about $30,000. I was only selling 4000, 5000 papers a week. I sold each issue for ten cents. The publication costs were about $4000. I was getting about seven cents a copy, bringing...
...Alexander report broke decision making down into three areas--educational, social, and financial--where the HUC felt students had nominal, but not decisive influence...
Several pieces of Cambridge Fire Department equipment fought the blaze to the delight of dozens of onlookers. Bystanders in the Quincy yard ran from showers of glass as firemen broke out windows in D-entry stairway and tossed damaged furniture from the second story windows. The crowd hissed a resident of the Quincy tower who played "Light My Fire" on his stereo until the police...