Word: breakdowns
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...careless checking of bond transactions; in Milwaukee. Died. Dr. Raymond Philip Dougherty, 55, professor of Assyriology and Babylonian Literature at Yale, curator of Sterling Memorial Museum's Babylonian Collection; by his own hand (hanging); near his home in Hamden, Conn. In April he had suffered a nervous breakdown. Died. Dr. Frederick Henry Baetjer, 58, famed x-ray pioneer, professor of roentgenology at Johns Hopkins University; of long-standing necrosis caused by x-ray burns; in Catonsville, Md. He began his experiments before the advent of modern protective devices, by 1909 had lost an eye, four fingers. Surgeons...
Died. Paul B. King, 38, Wartime aviation captain, son of Utah's Senator William Henry King; when he fell/jumped from the seventh floor of Washington's Blackstone Hotel. A nervous breakdown six months ago forced Captain King to quit test piloting at Langley Field, Va., enter a sanitarium which he left last fortnight...
...Hanussen (born Steinschneider) was found in a wood near Bayreuth last week. Herr Hanussen was one of Europe's best known fortunetellers; he predicted the rise of Adolf Hitler several years ago. Three weeks ago he suddenly quit a vaudeville engagement in Berlin "because of an impending nervous breakdown...
...industry, which Chief Justice Hughes has characterized as "deplorable" (TIME, March 27). Both Secretaries hurried directly to the White House from a conference on another of the nation's fuels: the Governors' oil conference. Convened to settle the question of proration (now on the verge of complete breakdown), the conference at once split into the usual two factions: big producers for proration, independents against...
...complete breakdown of the American school system" is no new thing for pedagogs to discuss. Last week, as 6,000-odd members of the Department of Superintendence of the National Education Association gathered in Minneapolis for their 63rd annual convention, they stirred themselves once more to "avert this disaster." They were more anxious than ever before. It no longer seemed sufficient simply to cry: "Save the schools! Save the innocent children!" An emergency commission reported, first thing, that while public school enrolment had increased nearly a million since 1930, the number of teachers had decreased 15,000; the amount...