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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With growing vexation, the U.S. people had watched the United Nations, like a kind of 58-legged race, try to walk. It didn't seem to be able to; in fact, it seemed to have reached the point where it was lingering betwixt a balk and a breakdown. Last week, under pressure from thousands of their constituents, six Congressmen trooped before the House Foreign Affairs Committee to plead that the U.S. do something-anything-to strengthen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Change U.N,? | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...Trembling (adapted by Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 3, 1948 | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...husband. Mrs. Thompson had fainted before her execution. Her limp body was dragged to the gallows. Said Mrs. Gould: "That execution was so horrible that after it, the hangman committed suicide,* one of the wardresses who was present went mad, and the chaplain had a very bad nervous breakdown; and every single person who was present left the service within a very short time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: End of the 8 O'Clock Walk | 4/26/1948 | See Source »

...board listened. It decided that John was mostly to blame for the breakdown in negotiations over the pension fund. As for the current strike, which John insisted was not a strike, the board thought it "was more than a coincidence" that after John wrote his miners a letter saying that the operators had "dishonored" the 1947 coal contract, the miners had walked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: What Next? | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Moral and political breakdown" is feared by the rector of the University of Heidelberg if his students do not get quick evidence of support from abroad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rector of Heidelberg Fears Demoralization of Students | 4/6/1948 | See Source »

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