Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amid the familiar pleas and protests of educators' conferences, observers noted one significant difference. With the breakdown of local support, educators have turned almost unanimously to cry for Federal subsidy. Last week conferring citizens were inclined to think that Education's salvation lay in the State. Echoed by Indiana's Governor Paul V. McNutt, Citizen Alfred E. Smith called (by proxy) for State support of schools, warned against Federal control. Wrote he: "It is axiomatic in American Government that control follows support. Men may cry Federal aid without Federal control but so declaring does not determine...
...Divers', Rosemary begins to realize there is something strange about Nicole and her relations with Dick. They all go up to Paris together where Dick falls in love with Rosemary. But before anything can happen Abe North involves them all in a drunken scandal, Nicole has a breakdown, and the Divers go back to the Riviera alone...
After Nicole's breakdown in Paris, Dick accepts an offer of a partnership in a Swiss clinic of his own. Nicole seems better but Dick cannot get Rosemary out of his head. Several years later he runs into her in Italy. They become lovers and quarrel. Dick goes back to the clinic, takes to drink, gradually goes to pot. His partner buys him out. Nicole, now completely cured, looks at her once-adored husband with new eyes, sees him rapidly losing his charm and his character. She takes the patient Tommy Barban as a lover, divorces Dick. He goes...
...dusted off National Distillers' famed publicity stunt -the whiskey dividend of 1932-and used it once again, not to attract attention but to divert it. Both his customers and his Government were disgruntled with him and all other distillers over high liquor prices. So President Porter released a breakdown of the taxes and expenses which the stockholders had been asked to pay on the whiskey they had received as a dividend...
James Beecher (1828-86), a sailor and Civil War soldier, became a minister in Owego, N. Y. He preached in the forests of Ulster County, N. Y., in the slums of Brooklyn, had a mental breakdown. One night he quietly went to his room, placed the muzzle of his gun in his mouth, shot himself...