Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chorus, went around town to banquets and meetings drumming up enthusiasm for a permanent opera organization. He spent $20,000 first thing, fixing up the old Auditorium. He imported high-priced singers. At the end of his first season (1923) he went to the hospital with a nervous breakdown. He had put on performances with the sketchiest possible rehearsals. He does the same thing now but he lets the rest of his staff worry. With subscribers back of him, he concentrates on picking his singers.*This year Merola has allotted his opening night to Soprano Claudia Muzio...
...Liner Rex at Gibraltar (see p. 15) exclaimed: "My political future is at stake.'' This week Tammany is to hold a nominating convention, on the eve of which "Jimmy" Walker was supposed to arrive triumphantly like Napoleon from Elba to be renamed for his old job. The Rex's breakdown cancelled this act as Citizen Walker, late as usual, sailed on the Enropa, due to arrive after the convention...
...Breakdown. The League v. Legion fight centres around the Veterans Administration for which during the current year Congress appropriated $927,849,000. This money will be spent as follows...
...Paige Motors Corp., youngest of the three Graham brothers who acquired Paige Motor Co. in 1927; by drowning himself; in Chatham, Ont. His brother, Robert Cabel Graham, and a priest were taking him to the Loyola House of Retreat in Morristown, N. J. after sanitarium treatment for a nervous breakdown. He eluded them, leaped into McGregor Creek. Died. George Shinault, Washington policeman who killed William Hushka in the Bonus army riot (TIME, Aug. 8); of a bullet wound inflicted while breaking up a street fight; in Washington, D. C. Died, Dr. Graham Wallas, 74, sociologist, political scientist, author (Human Nature...
...rats and stray cats of the street. . . . That's how the celebrated law of supply & demand works under Capitalism! . . . The situation is worse rather than better in State after State, especially in those hells on earth, the bituminous coal mining camps. Next winter offers no hope except a complete breakdown, made more terrible by riots and actual starvation...