Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London Zoo. When he returns with Jenny Lind (Virginia Bruce) instead, Barnum's troubles start. A Swedish masseur teaches him a toast. When he uses it at a banquet, Jenny Lind thinks he is trying to insult her. She scuttles back to Sweden, the neglected museum goes bankrupt, and Barnum is forlornly slouching on a park bench when his old friend General Thumb discovers...
...anything but reassuring. In a spirited attack on the Baldwin thesis shaggy-maned David Lloyd George, now leader of a minuscule Liberal faction consisting of himself, his daughter, his son and his son-in-law-all M. P.'s-declared: "If you let the imagination run, you will bankrupt the country in trying to provide against imaginary dangers...
...concluding, Mr. Villard said, "Before the Spanish War we didn't worry about being attacked, and we managed to get along with an army of only 26,000 men, but now, as the greatest naval power in the world except one, which is bankrupt at present, we say we need armament...
...Court should hold against the Government the whole economic structure of the country would be badly rent. Many a corporation would go bankrupt and the U. S. Government would find its debt increased by two-thirds. But the likelihood of the Supreme Court denying the validity of the gold contract law is considered relatively remote inasmuch as the Constitution specifically gives Congress the power to "coin money, regulate the value thereof...
...long they are out of work, can justifiably proceed to borrow money when its funds run out on the assumption that it can pay back its debt during the long period of employment that will "inevitably" follow. If unemployment lasts too long, however, the insurance fund may go bankrupt...