Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappearance Mr. Livermore returned home, walking unsteadily, his face muffled inside his coat collar (see cut). His story: he had spent the night in a hotel, had awakened with a blank mind; newspaper headlines about himself brought him to his senses. His doctor's story: "Amnesia nervous breakdown." Pending against...
...slaughter and terrorism. The early colonial fur traders became suspect for the same reason, although the sin of the bootlegger has been aggravated by a centralization which made him a vast entrepreneur in other criminal fields, and produced the American genus racketeer, with all that it connotes in the breakdown of municipal, state, and even federal administration...
...Finally, and of overshadowing importance, the present policy threatens a complete breakdown of the credit of the government...
...Earth," and "Red Bread," offer openings for such an apocrypha, his latest collation will give no satisfaction to those who think him a blind enthusiast. On the contrary it is only too apparent that he is leaning over backwards in pursuit of objectivity. He relates in detail the ghastly breakdown of the agricultural sector, asserts that the standard of living is lower after the Five Year Plan than before, and intimates that the political prisons are not the last word in humanitarian institutions...
...inquiry has especially arranged this meeting at the present time in order to give students a chance to hear an authoritative discussion of the vital issues involved in the withdrawal of Germany from the League of Nations, the breakdown of the Disarmament Conference, and the menace of Hitlerism. The officers feel that there is much of interest to undergraduates in the recent developments abroad, both in Europe and in the Far East on which to base the subjects of their meetings...