Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Francisco's opera thrive. For his first season (1923) there was not even an adequate stage. Quick to gamble, he spent $20,000 fixing up the old Auditorium, began importing high-priced singers. When that first season ended Impresario Merola went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. But San Franciscans had liked his performances, wanted more, formed an opera association with 2,500 founder-members who were never called upon for more than $50 or $100 apiece...
...hall where he was to speak, and by the police of Terre Haute, Ind., who locked him up as a vagrant (TIME, Oct. 12). Born in Kansas, son of a country schoolmaster, Earl Browder's own schooling ended at 9 when his father had a breakdown and the son got a job as an errand boy. He studied bookkeeping, became office manager of a farmers' Co-Operative at Olathe, finally in 1917 went to jail for opposing the draft...
Those at whose doors all these events take place never seem to be numbered among our personal acquaintances, but that is doubtless only an indication of the incipient breakdown of the capitalist system. At least the important compiling of records of deeds of derring do is performed for all who have eyes to see by little cultural phenomena like the Boston Daily Record...
...ridiculous, small-city scandal, returned to New York, suffered poverty again before she got a fine but difficult job caring for a famed millionaire who was drinking himself to death. As soon as that job was over she was looking for work again. On the verge of a breakdown, she applied for employment with a celebrated psychiatrist named Dr. Stuart Ellery Jerrold (Smith Ely Jelliffe). He gave it to her and at that point Mrs. Smith Ely Jel-liffe ends her book...
...generations has British diplomacy had to eat so much humble pie as during the current year. Such violent indigestion has this diet given Captain Anthony Eden that last week His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs was still recuperating from a near-breakdown in the country. Therefore it was stolid hard-working Sir James Richard Stanhope, ;th Earl Stanhope, who dutifully opened his mouth for a large and bitter slice last week when the Montreux Conference resumed its deliberations in Switzerland...