Word: overworks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Carl Joseph Wilhelm Cuno, 56, managing director of Hamburg-American Line; of heart attack from overwork; in Hamburg, where he was Rotary Club president. As German Chancellor for nine months (1922-23) Dr. Cuno deliberately inflated the mark in an effort to force a Reparations moratorium from the Allies. Succeeded as Chancellor by the late, great Dr. Gustav Stresemann, Dr. Cuno rebuilt the Hamburg-American Line (stripped by the Allies down to 4.000 tons in 1918) up to its present 1.087,175 tons...
...Ethel Vickery starts the day as usual, right, by waking her business-wearied husband Joe with her fatuous Swedish exercises on the floor, and endless personal hygiene in the only bathroom. Rob, their spoiled schoolboy son, lolls in bed turning a hangover into a case of overwork. Rosamond dreams, as far as her knowledge will permit, of violent love at the hands of Wesley, the chauffeur. Only Isabel, the youngest, is up & about, playing in the pools that have unaccountably appeared in the San Andreas canyon's dry streambed. Old Pryor, Ethel's father, is also up-stealing...
...King's Physician Lord Dawson of Penn ; Charles Spencer Chaplin, in Singapore, of dengue fever; Britain's Chancellor of the Ex chequer Neville Chamberlain, of gout following lumbago ; Representative William Robert Wood, of Indiana, 71-year-old chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee, critically exhausted from overwork on the House Appropriations Committee ; Henry Lewis Stimson, confined in his rented Swiss villa near Geneva with laryngitis...
Died, Edward Marjoribanks, 32, able young Member of Parliament, writer (Life of Sir Edward Marshall-Hall); by his own hand (pistol); in the country home of his stepfather. Secretary of State for War Viscount Hailsham, in Sussex. England. Apparent reason: overwork. He was known to the U. S. in 1922 when, as president of the Oxford Union, he led Oxford debaters against many a potent U. S. college team...
Speaker Garner, pointing out that Dr. George Wehnes Calver, the House physician, had said overwork hastened both Representatives' end, advised: "Ease up." Already noticeable was the "easing up" process in the House which of late has been marking time on unimportant legislation...