Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...peddler, 1934 was a miserable year. In January his sister & manager, "Leaping Lena" Levinsky, divorced her husband in order to have more time to run her brother's affairs. In March he was thrashed by German Walter Neusel. In May, he went to a hospital, for a minor breakdown. In August, he married one Rosie Glickman ("Roxanne Carmine"), World's Fair fan dancer. A month later, Rosie Glickman sued King Levinsky for divorce because he hit her on the jaw. Last month, King Levinsky was matched to fight a four-round bout against Heavyweight Champion Max Baer...
...National Council for Prevention of War broadcast this dire prediction: "We shall build naval vessels and airplanes madly on a fictitious war scare which the munitions makers are trumping up. . . . Our shipbuilders, airplane manufacturers and munitions makers are already launching their publicity to reap a rich harvest from the breakdown of the London Naval conversations...
...bitter dawn. War Minister General Senjuro Hayashi and Navy Minister Admiral Mineo Osumi hurled this final threat and Finance Minister Fujii crumpled, accepting their demands which means saddling Japan with a 750,000,000 yen deficit. Three days later Mr. Fujii abruptly resigned "suffering from a nervous and physical breakdown," according to his doctors, who said they were injecting him with camphor oil. Grimly the fighting services prepared to jam their budget through the Diet anyhow, circulated dire threats of what will happen to deputies who oppose them...
...invited Teddy Roosevelt to back him. One evening in an overwrought condition he addressed a newspaper publishers' banquet in Philadelphia. He began by abusing the privileged classes, went on to abuse the Press, completely lost his head and launched into a meaningless tirade. Practically suffering a nervous breakdown, he repeated whole passages of his speech. After he had spoken for an hour and a half, his audience walked out on him. He continued his ravings for nearly an hour before collapsing. That one evening's illness killed his chances for the nomination that T. R. later decided...
Probably more important is the discussion of the second point--how different groups within each house have mixed. He points at the partial breakdown of the clubs, to be sure, but follows this up with this suggestive message, "Ask any one of the handsome and efficient headwaitresses who quietly preside over our eating-halls and if you are tactfully persistent she will show you where this group eats every day or what hour that coterie file in and take their seats at their favorite table by the window. She will point out where the public-school boys customarily...