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...then that the election officials embark on a procedure that would baffle U.S. politicians. British law requires that the ballots from all the polling places in the constituency be mixed on a large counting table before the count is begun. This makes it impossible to get a breakdown of the vote by districts. The returning officer declares the candidate elected who received the highest number of votes...
...finances with a skilled and autocratic hand; in London. Attempting to rebuild the international monetary structure shattered by World War I, Norman, with the approval of Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill, pushed Britain back onto the gold standard in 1925, was bitterly criticized when the worldwide breakdown forced her off again in 1931. When he finally stepped down, he had held office longer than any other Governor in the Bank's 256-year history...
...company. Flocks of engineers, sent to treat the patient, could find nothing organically wrong. After the war was over, the work load decreased. The ailing exchange recovered and is now entirely normal. Its trouble had been "functional": like other hard-driven war workers, it had suffered a nervous breakdown...
...Stanky, who made no secret of what he thought about Southworth's managing. Stanky's roommate, Alvin Dark, said "Me, too." By August, Southworth was like a man in a haunted house, shying at every whisper, He was sent home on the verge of a breakdown. The crowning insult came when his players voted him only half a share of their series money (for finishing fourth...
...doctors said Grotewohl would have to stay in the hospital at least four weeks. That should certainly be enough to cure a case of grippe, but it was probably not enough to cure a nervous breakdown or a severe case of political jitters. Whatever else was the matter with Grotewohl, he had also developed an incompatibility with the Russians; it might prove incurable...