Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sulphate compounds. His latest work has been on radiothermy, raising the temperature of the body by high frequency waves. Radiothermy is now being used, in preference to malaria, to create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown. Last week he was a patient of the Mayo Clinic. He had long wanted to abdicate his research directorship. But no one with G. E. was willing to supplant him, and President Gerard Swope would bring in no outsider. Last week President Swope made a decision, accepted Dr. Whitney...
...Washington but Wall Street that's ruined us. It's not Mr. Hoover who made the Depression. He isn't big enough. It's the breakdown of the capitalist system itself. . . . No budget is balanced that ignores the desperate plight of 13,000,000 unemployed...
...Lindley draws a picture of the distress produced among small wage earners by bank failures which shows that he is aware of the breakdown of the economic system, but the refuses to admit that the breakdown is the result of any inherent inadequacy in the system in the face of modern technology and the growing complexity of world economy. Socialism he dismisses with an exclamation mark and a "God forbid." Socialism is very possibly not the right solution, but it can hardly be rejected off-hand without so much as the suggestion of an alternative solution...
...might force Scot MacDonald to "go to the country" in a general election. In an absent-minded moment last week the Prime Minister drew ironic Labor cheers by remarking to the House: ''Neither protection nor free trade can by itself cure unemployment, which is caused by the breakdown of the present social system...
Soon after M. S. Rex broke down at Gibraltar, fortnight ago, Rome heard rumors that His Royal Highness Prince Luigi of Savoy, Duke of the Abruzzi, would resign as president of the Italian Line because of the breakdown...