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...Sixteen of the 374 cases were close to nervous breakdowns. "In ten cases there was definite threat of suicide ... in four cases mothers threatened desertion and in two, mothers threatened to 'do away' with their children." Cleveland's crisis came to an end when the City Council approved a $1,050,000 bond issue, restored "full relief." Commenting on the report, Governor Bricker disowned responsibility, said his duty was "not from the standpoint of administration, but only to see that funds were available. Any lapse there was the sole responsibility of the local stations...
...only had the Finns ended, for the time being at least, Russia's threat to cut their country in two, but small bands of them were pushing toward the Leningrad-Murminsk railway in several places, making real their own threat to cut Russia's supply lines to the north...
...intended to jog the U. S. into renewing her trade treaty with Japan. The present agreement, the Treaty of 1911, was denounced on July 26, and lapses on Jan. 26. By last week nothing had been done about renewal, and Japan was beginning to get panicky about the threat of embargo. The Cabinet might fall unless the U. S. reacted favorably to the Yangtze promise. "We anticipate American action," said Spokesman Yakichiro Suma, "with absorbing interest"-and before Christmas, he added...
...roads leading from Suomussalmi church to the frontier, then stormed into Suomussalmi village, routed Russian tanks, and trapped a Russian force they estimated at 10,000. If the Finns could prevent this force from working in conjunction with the columns to the north and south, Russia's Bothnian threat would be ended and the lost columns could be starved, frozen or carved to death...
Trade centre turnover did virtually the reverse; prewar, in mid August it climbed to a peak slightly higher than in January. Threat of war sent it skidding. Then during the "war boom" in production, it fluctuated vigorously without making headway and did not equal its prewar peak till mid November-an indication that during this period the volume of transactions in these centres just about kept pace with proportional increase in inventories...