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...Showman Lee Shubert, in Manhattan, of a glandular ailment; Banker Paul Moritz Warburg, in Manhattan, of a "breakdown of the eye nerves"; Jane Addams, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, recovering rapidly from an operation for ovarian cyst; Cinemactress Marjorie White, in Philadelphia, of severe injuries suffered in an auto crash; Cinemactress Pola Negri, in Santa Monica, Calif., following a critical operation for an intestinal obstruction; Senator Tasker Lowndes Oddie of Nevada, of a broken collarbone suffered during his morning canter, when his mount stumbled and fell on him; Biographer Giles Lytton Strachey, of paratyphoid fever; Winston Leonard...
...information is correct, and I think it is, nothing can prevent a complete world breakdown within the next two months. . . . Reparations should be abolished. . . . Interallied debts should be written off entirely. . . . The world's tariffs must come down. The gravest consequences are likely to arise from our own departure in the matter of tariffs. Great Britain is making world bankruptcy inevitable...
...beginning of the War he lost his Austrian citizenship by enlisting in the German Army as a private, served with distinction, was once wounded and once gassed. He left the trenches firmly convinced that Germany's defeat and the breakdown of the Empire were due to the Communists and Jewish profiteers...
...supposed to entertain, yawned when he read her his new play, left the houseparty ostentatiously early. Philomena embarrassed him by promising to leave her husband for him. then made him feel a fool by telling her husband all about it and changing her mind. On the verge of a breakdown Hugo made an unforgivable scene, pulled gossipy Corny Cooke's nose. In despair he confided his trapped feelings to Marianne, wise young daughter of the house. She advised him to go away, stop writing hits, stop being lionized. Gratefully he took her advice, went off into obscurity with...
...newspaper files and bravely undertake to write a complete account of what will then be remembered as The Depression of the Thirties. Some of his chapter headings may be guessed now: "The 1929 Market Decline," "Tariff Walls," "The Soviet Government as a Factor in World Trade." "Germany's Breakdown," "France's Smart Jockeying," "England to the Wall" and "Artificial Relief Measures Attempted in the U. S." An important subsection will be on U. S. railroads. Whether or not it will be headed "The Collapse of the Railroads" or "How the Railroads Met a Crisis" depends upon many factors still indeterminable...