Word: breakdowns
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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...