Word: broking
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...executive committee of the Governors' conference met last week in Washington. Afterwards they went to the White House to pay their respects to President Hoover. Rhode Island's Case made the presentations, after announcing that they "didn't want anything." Broke in Virginia's Pollard: "Hold on! The Governor of Rhode Island may not want anything but he's not voicing my sentiments. Down our way we want a whole lot." President Hoover grinned. ¶ Over a new 3,000-mi. wire leased by the Associated Press to connect New York and Mexico City, President...
...over New York's playful Mayor James John ("Jimmy") Walker. No one supposed that Diplomatist Whitehouse was overjoyed by his transfer year ago from Madrid to Guatemala (TIME, Nov. 18, 1929). And last week, even as Ambassador Edwin Vernon Morgan was off in Paris when the Brazilian revolution broke, Minister Whitehouse was not in Guatemala but vacationing in Florida. Chagrined by the presidential triple play at Guatemala City, he made hasty arrangements to fly back to duty...
...banked around them, bent over a green baize table in the finals of the national pocket billiards championship. They played the kind of pocket billiards that smalltown sports play in their dreams. Greenleaf won the bank with a perfect shot. His ball was flat against the rail. Then Rudolph broke cleanly, without leaving Greenleaf a shot, but as they kept on it looked more and more like Greenleaf's evening. By the seventeenth inning he had 118, 45 balls ahead of Rudolph. There were seven balls on the table - exactly the number Greenleaf needed to win, but he missed...
...Publisher Fawcett's simple plan: to harness the smoking-room story and make it work for him. Further testimony is the fact that Fawcett magazines (all monthly) now number twelve. Publisher Fawcett returned from the War to Minneapolis (where he had long been police reporter on the Journal) broke and jobless. He borrowed a typewriter and, half for amusement, half with a vague hope of profit, began dashing off "hot" jokes and verses for his Army friends. Popularity was immediate. "Captain Billy" had to mimeograph his "stuff" to meet the demand, giving the sheet the title which persists: Captain...
...worked from burlesque into comic leads in Broadway shows. Most celebrated of his comic assets are his folding legs. When he was on the road with Louis the Fourteenth he had to stumble down a flight of stairs. One night one of the stairs was missing and he broke his legs. U. S. doctors said he could never fold again, but Vienna specialists proved them wrong. In London, Ambassador Dawes thought it would be fun to have Errol function anonymously as a waiter at an embassy dinner. Errol crashed silver and glass about, poured mineral water on a lady...