Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tammany and the Democratic machine has proved itself bankrupt of moral responsibility and utterly unfitted to rule a modern city. In no department is Tammany less fitted than in that dealing with the enforcement of law and order. And yet the Tammany candidate for Mayor seriously asks an electorate to vote for his ticket on the plea that Fusion has ruined the City. Rather, "to end banditry" and make parks and streets safe for all, the LaGuardia and Dewey team deserves to be sent in with a large majority...
...have more time for his legal firm, Shutts & Bowen, one of the largest in the South. At 40, Mr. Shutts had settled down in Aurora, Ind. as lawyer and weekly paper publisher, a "leading citizen" in a quiet Ohio river town. His life took an unexpected twist when the bankrupt Miami News-Record imported...
...operations, the privilege of having union cards in a nation-wide society, and the responsibility of participating in its wild-eyed schemes, all of which originate far from the scene of action in Cambridge. Last year, for instance, the National Union almost succeeded in allying itself with the politically bankrupt farmer-labor party in the Middle West, and this shot-gun wedding which the national leaders tried to put over on the rest of the member organizations was only averted by the stern and level-headed refusal of the Harvard group to violate its platform pledge given its members which...
...Jean Gabin), a handsome thief, lives in a basement flophouse run by a receiver of stolen goods, Kostylev (Vladimir Sokoloff) and his wife Vassilissa (Suzy Prim), Pepel's mistress. Other muttering, miasmal inmates are: an alcoholic actor, a streetwalker addicted to reading sentimental novels aloud, and a genuine bankrupt baron who abandons his palace to live in filth. Threatened by the police, Vassilissa attempts to force her pretty little sister Natacha (Junie Astor) to marry a pudgy, petty official. In a resulting brawl old Kostylev is killed and Pepel goes to jail. A new ending, wildly...
Born in Ohio, raised on a New Mexico ranch, he was "married, divorced and bankrupt" before he was 21. After going broke he settled down to work for the Overland used-car agency in Los Angeles until one day he heard that a steam laundry was badly needed in Tampico, Mexico, to wash oil workers' dirty shirts...