Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strenuously object to the head "World War" which TIME is using. Do you imply that you anticipate the breakdown of the present ideal of the great majority of the American people, namely, to keep our country out of this...
...reasons, that smile must have tasted bitter on Josef Beck's lips. The coming of war meant the final breakdown of his hard-boiled system of checks and balances, playing off the totalitarians against the democracies for the peace of Poland. The coming of war also meant that Colonel Beck's brave stand against Adolf Hitler after the dismemberment of Czecho-Slovakia had failed; that matching the Fuhrer at his own game, bluff for bluff, had only pushed him beyond bluff to blows...
Andre Tardieu, 63, the baldish, bankerish French statesman whose countrymen used to call him "I'Americain" for his bustle and bluntness, lay gravely ill last week at Menton after a nervous breakdown. He was the last living French signer of the Treaty of Versailles, and as Death knocked at his door, the last bitter fruits of that treaty were dropping off history's tree into the ample lap of France...
There is little heroic in a war of nerves. Its assaults are vicious whispers and strident insults, currency raids, press bombardments, radio tirades; its triumphs have scarcely more grandeur than a nervous breakdown...
...year-old Widow Mary Frances Richard, a U. S. citizen, last week had her face slapped for sassing a sentry). Japan did not capture the objective she seemed to want-British acquiescence in Japanese control of North China currency; but she did achieve what she really wanted-a breakdown of the parleys. The British Government made its first strong stand in the whole engagement by firmly refusing to discuss the currency issue. There being nothing more to talk about, British Ambassador Sir Robert Craigie buzzed off to Lake Chuzenji. This left Japan in' just the self-righteous psychological position...