Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...information is correct, and I think it is, nothing can prevent a complete world breakdown within the next two months. . . . Reparations should be abolished. . . . Interallied debts should be written off entirely. . . . The world's tariffs must come down. The gravest consequences are likely to arise from our own departure in the matter of tariffs. Great Britain is making world bankruptcy inevitable...
...supposed to entertain, yawned when he read her his new play, left the houseparty ostentatiously early. Philomena embarrassed him by promising to leave her husband for him. then made him feel a fool by telling her husband all about it and changing her mind. On the verge of a breakdown Hugo made an unforgivable scene, pulled gossipy Corny Cooke's nose. In despair he confided his trapped feelings to Marianne, wise young daughter of the house. She advised him to go away, stop writing hits, stop being lionized. Gratefully he took her advice, went off into obscurity with...
Died. Richard Teller Crane Jr., 58, president since 1914 of The Crane Co. of Chicago (plumbing fixtures), brother of onetime Minister to China Charles Richard Crane; of heart disease after a nervous breakdown; on his 58th birthday; in Manhattan. A philanthropist, giver of $10,000,000 worth of Crane stock to his employes, President Crane with a reputed fortune of $50,000,000 was rated Chicago's second richest man (next to Board Chairman Julius Rosenwald of Sears, Roebuck...
...gold standard in the United States today is strong?very strong?and the fears entertained ... of the possible breakdown of the American gold standard, have no justification whatever in the cold facts of the situation...
...newspaper files and bravely undertake to write a complete account of what will then be remembered as The Depression of the Thirties. Some of his chapter headings may be guessed now: "The 1929 Market Decline," "Tariff Walls," "The Soviet Government as a Factor in World Trade." "Germany's Breakdown," "France's Smart Jockeying," "England to the Wall" and "Artificial Relief Measures Attempted in the U. S." An important subsection will be on U. S. railroads. Whether or not it will be headed "The Collapse of the Railroads" or "How the Railroads Met a Crisis" depends upon many factors still indeterminable...