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...physician in charge. Dr. Arthur Tiber answered. Announced the stranger thickly: "I am Lieutenant Coffey, of the Safety Bureau. The police have been looking for me all day. Please take my pistol from me. I am very nervous. I feel that I am going to have a breakdown...
...Scotland, went to Canada in 1913. Three years later he settled in the U. S. For ten years he was a Congregational minister in Bridgeport, Conn. He was graduated from Yale (B. D. 1923), studied at Drake University (Des Moines, Iowa). Four years ago he suffered a breakdown. Thin, highbrowed, grey-haired, he now looks older than he is. In March 1931 Mr. Beale took over the People's Church in St. Paul, whose pastor for many years had been Howard Y. Williams, now secretary of Professor John Dewey's League for Independent Political Action. People...
...sulphate compounds. His latest work has been on radiothermy, raising the temperature of the body by high frequency waves. Radiothermy is now being used, in preference to malaria, to create the artificial fever which makes paretics at least temporarily clear-minded. Two years ago Dr. Whitney suffered a nervous breakdown. Last week he was a patient of the Mayo Clinic. He had long wanted to abdicate his research directorship. But no one with G. E. was willing to supplant him, and President Gerard Swope would bring in no outsider. Last week President Swope made a decision, accepted Dr. Whitney...
...Washington but Wall Street that's ruined us. It's not Mr. Hoover who made the Depression. He isn't big enough. It's the breakdown of the capitalist system itself. . . . No budget is balanced that ignores the desperate plight of 13,000,000 unemployed...
...Lindley draws a picture of the distress produced among small wage earners by bank failures which shows that he is aware of the breakdown of the economic system, but the refuses to admit that the breakdown is the result of any inherent inadequacy in the system in the face of modern technology and the growing complexity of world economy. Socialism he dismisses with an exclamation mark and a "God forbid." Socialism is very possibly not the right solution, but it can hardly be rejected off-hand without so much as the suggestion of an alternative solution...