Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took 24 hours to set the Durant dish-washing tale straight. Though declaring himself bankrupt last February, Automan Durant is no down-&-outer, still maintains offices on Park Avenue, weekends on a $100,000 estate at Deal, N. J. President of Deal Gables Corp. (real estate), he owns a one-story building in North Asbury, which was built as a salesroom for Durant cars ten years ago. Concessionaires opened a food market there last December, did so badly that one by one they had to close up. Last month Landlord Durant took the place in hand, later announced the opening...
...book is somewhat like an old-fashioned geography turned upside down. Beginning with a discussion of rivers, plains, mountain ranges, rainfall, Stuart Chase proceeds to long, eloquent, angry lament on the squandering of native riches. Like the Whitman of a bankrupt country, he composes a great catalog of lost national wealth, including the buffalo, the passenger pigeon, eastern salmon, Pacific halibut, petroleum, timber, coal, the great auk, the Carolina parakeet, the drought-impoverished Dust Bowl. It is a disturbing account, calculated to make any responsible citizen treasure every green tree and each clear brook of his native land. The oyster...
...Manhattan, bankrupt Travel Institute of Bible Research, in part settlement of a $26,142 loan, assigned to Bernard Schaefer a plot of 830 square metres on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives, a motorboat on the Sea of Galilee...
...Frazier-Lemke Bill, passed by Congress in 1934, permitted bankrupt farmers to operate their farms for six years after foreclosure and buy them back from the mortgagees "at a fair and reasonable value." A second Frazier-Lemke Bill, passed last year after the first had been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court, permitted farmers to retain their farms for three years after foreclosure, paying the mortgagees "a reasonable rent." But Frazier-Lemke Bill No. 3 the Democratic leaders of the House were determined should never get out of the legislative factory. Only by petition of 218 members and the rebellious...
Died. Albert Harrison Brundage, 74, noted toxicologist; of lobar pneumonia; in Central Islip, L.I. Wealthy from his writings, he gave so liberally to charity and scientific research that two months ago, bankrupt and broken in health, he was evicted from his Woodhaven, L.I. home...