Word: breakdowns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been...
...third working.* Shot in 36 days with extreme care by the same producer and director, again using a script by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, it brought back William Powell as smart Detective Nick Charles, Myrna Loy as Nora, his imperturbable wife, Asta (cranky and snappy after a nervous breakdown) as their dog. It had the Thin Man's pace, bounce and snappy dialogue, exciting murder and air of amiable dipsomania. Nick and Nora take the pandemonium that passes for their domestic life with the same unquenchable good humor, poise, charm and thirst. But the spontaneity seems a little...
...Government's worry over the breakdown of its educational system was added another worry-evacuation's cost. The Government pays ten shillings, sixpence a week for each child's keep. Last week, evacuation's bill having risen already to well over $500,000,000, the Ministry of Health was considering imposing a means test, making families that could afford it pay for their children's country board...
Albert S. Coolidge, Lecturer in Chemistry, opened the meeting with a defense of the Ludlow Amendment claiming that it gave the people an opportunity to express their peace sentiment while Liam Donlom, field representative of the C. L. O., continued the discussion with a speech emphasizing the breakdown of collective security and the absolute necessity of our isolation policy...
...Fritsch who carried straight to Hitler himself the class-conscious Army's protest against Minister of War Marshal Werner von Blomberg's marriageto his stenographer. In the purge that followed both Blomberg and Fritsch lost their jobs, but after the Army's mechanical breakdown during the invasion of Austria, Fritsch was reinstated to the extent that he was given honorary command of the 12th Artillery Regiment...