Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept France and her Little Entente (Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Rumania) at bay; made an alliance with Dictator Mussolini, signed treaties of friendship or arbitration with Austria, Turkey, Switzerland, the United States. Last week correspondents realized that Count Bethlen's rule was seriously threatened. The German crash and the general European situation was the immediate crisis. His troubles started more than a year ago when he limited the open ballot districts of Hungary from...
...Lucerne representatives of ten nitrate producing countries failed to come to an understanding, saw their cartel crash to pieces when Germany stubbornly stood its ground...
Scotland is a poor place for garden parties. While the King & Queen sat on their dais and guests strolled round the park, great black clouds rolled in from the north. With a crash the downpour descended. Women screamed, brave men ran. Their Majesties were comparatively safe under their canopy, soon reached the sanctuary of Holyrood Palace under enormous umbrellas held by gallant Scots, but the Duke & Duchess of York got as wet as any commoners. Debutantes wept unrestrainedly, their best dresses ruined...
...From St. John, N. B. to Armonk, N.Y. flew Clarence Duncan Chamberlin. Strapped to a stretcher in the cabin was his friend and pupil Ruth Nichols whose back was injured in the crash that ended her attempt of a transatlantic flight (TIME, June 29). Prior to fetching Miss Nichols, Flyer Chamberlin had taken his Crescent monoplane to Floyd Bennett Airport, New York City, hung out a sign coaxing joy-hoppers to "fly with a pilot who flew the Atlantic," promising an autograph on every ticket. Immediately Roosevelt Flying Corp. hired Roger Q. Williams, just released from "alimony" jail, made...
...found guilty, liable to seven years in prison, $1,000 fine. They were remanded to jail without bail. The deal for which the culprits were held responsible was selected from a host of other shady practices by which the bank's officers, panic-stricken by the 1929 stockmarket crash, guided the institution to ruin. It was a game of financial ring- around-a-rosy, played as follows: Bankus Corp. and City Financial Corp., subsidiaries of the Bank of U. S., had a book value of $4,800,000 worth of real estate equities, but owed the parent organization...