Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...state, its trade perfected, its people lavishly provided with every necessity and every imaginable means of happiness, well ordered and well governed, none can gainsay him. If, in the course of showing the process by which this Utopia is achieved, he predicts devastating wars for the 1940's, complete breakdown of all trade in the sixties, the consequent reduction of all peoples to a semi-savage state, and the rescue of the populations from this distress by aviators and technicians, who, like the Hanseatic merchants, rule by control of communication, and civilize to maintain and improve their own position, that...
...years of chores for Gompers John Lewis attended his first A. F. of L. convention, mixed with the leaders, learned the tricks of Labor politics. After the War a U. M. W. shuffle resulted in the appointment of Lewis as vice president. When the regular president had a nervous breakdown, he stepped into his shoes. In 1920 he was duly elected U. M. W. president. Even before that time he had started to build up a personal machine which has kept him in a $12,000 per year office ever since, and made him an army of enemies...
...Tucson, Ariz.; Alberto Barreras, president of the Cuban Senate, fugitive Machadista, of abrasions suffered when an automobile belonging to New York's ex-Mayor John F. Hylan in which he was riding collided with an ambulance on Queensboro Bridge, Manhattan; Stage Actress Grace George, of a nervous breakdown, in Manhattan; Mahatma Gandhi, unconditionally released by the British Government after a seven days' fast in prison, at the Parnakuti villa of his faithful friend Lady Vitall Das Thackersey...
...matter was now one of "grave concern"-fairly strong diplomatic talk. In Madrid, Ambassador Bowers received a letter from the male prisoners: "We are now four in a cell. . . . The stench is unbelievable." They concluded that the female prisoner, Mrs. Caroline Lockwood, "shows alarming signals of an approaching breakdown." In his tourist bureau Judge Vidal said authoritatively. "They cannot expect first-class hotel life while in jail...
Bail was set at the sum-enormous for Mallorca-of 10,000 pesetas ($1,175) per prisoner. Promptly Prisoner Rutherford Fullerton, grandnephew of U. S. President Rutherford B. Hayes and wealthy retired businessman of Columbus, Ohio, emerged from jail with Mrs. Lockwood whose nervous breakdown was declared "narrowly averted." They were met by a cheering crowd, composed partly of U. S. tourists and partly of Mallorcan natives...