Word: breakdown
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...particularly fine piece of "muddling through" was the passage in which Mr. Baldwin referred to invalid Foreign Secretary Sir Austen Chamberlain, who, just prior to his breakdown (TIME, Sept. 10), succeeded in thoroughly entangling and ensnarling Franco-U.S.-British relations with respect to disarmament (TIME...
Other fellow passengers of Secretary Kellogg were: Stockmarketeer W. C. Durant; President Charles Edwin Mitchell of the National City Bank; Mr. & Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt; Cinemactress Dolores del Rio; Cinema director Edwin Carewe (attended by nurses for his nervous breakdown) ; and one Miss Agnes Boone, "dancing bathing beauty," soi disant descendant of Pioneer Daniel Boone...
Died. John Enri dal Plaz, 63, president of the French Line, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor; in Paris; after a breakdown probably due to overwork...
...presiding judge, Supreme Court Justice Stephen H. Callaghan, pointed out to the jury that Mrs. Knapp had lied to save herself. After the verdict came in, he deferred sentence until September because physicians said Mrs. Knapp was near a nervous breakdown. Deferred also were several other indictments against Mrs. Knapp on charges similar to the step-daughter graft...
Break-Down. Wednesday, with 4,820,840 shares, marked a new high record for a day's trading. More important it marked the worst break in stock market prices of the present expansion. They had been dancing an exuberant tarantella; they suddenly clattered into a noisy breakdown. They dropped without warning 5 to 40 points. American Telephone & Telegraph stock, one of the few important ones listed, not only did not wobble, but even rose during the week. But then directors had decreed $185,000,000 of new stock at par to shareholders. General Motors held unusually firm, considering that...