Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alexander MacDowell, died in Manhattan's Westminster Hotel. Known most widely for his piano piece, To a Wild Rose, courtly, affable MacDowell was internationally famed for an imposing list of orchestral suites, symphonic poems, piano concertos, songs and instrumental solo pieces. Sensitive and nervous by temperament (a mental breakdown hastened his death at 46), MacDowell loved the country, drew inspiration and titles for his music from nature. Eventually he bought himself a strip of wooded land near Peterboro in southern New Hampshire, where he spent his last years. Before he died he expressed a wish that this country refuge...
...college girls who wondered if it was safe for them to pick up strangers on trains, a sheltered boy who was sent to him to learn the facts of life but who turned out to be fully informed, a woman of 42 on the verge of a nervous breakdown; many, many others. Their confidences, together with Dr. Hotep's observations, make up the substance of Love and Happiness. Although readers will recognize that the doctor's wide experience has given him great tolerance, they are likely to be left wondering what else it has given...
...until shortly before Hitler came into power. A good cook who does her own housework, Miriam Beard spent eight years accumulating the amazing mass of facts for A History of the Business Man, had to be goaded into finishing the book by her energetic mother, almost had a nervous breakdown before she completed it. The result is a volume that businessmen could value as a lucid, informative study of their pioneering ancestors. The dimensions of the book are extraordinary. The 28 chapters are subdivided into 209 sections, covering commercial cities from Carthage to Chicago, war makers from Crassus to Krupp...
...story about an editorial in Justice, house organ of David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. The Garment Workers have had plenty of good publicity this winter from their Labor Stage musical revue Pins and Needles but the Justice editorial was in dead earnest. Profoundly regretting the breakdown of the A. F. of L.C. I. O. peace negotiations, the editorial declared...
...unions to return to A. F. of L. as a group. "Such an approach, it seems to us. could not have been stigmatized by any right thinking person as 'treason' or 'desertion' by either side." In other words, the Garment Workers placed responsibility for the breakdown of the peace negotiations squarely on the head of John L. Lewis...