Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Democratic Senator Copeland. If Republican Cluett had loudly trumpeted that he wore no man's collar, voters might have listened and laughed. Instead he remained very much on the inside pages because he persisted in crying: "The Federal Government is wasting our money. The country will be bankrupt within a year." Governor Lehman was practically conceded reelection, and on election day Senator Copeland will probably not remember he was opposed...
...number as a whole does leave one pretty clear impression. The writers are, in various degrees of intensity, all espousing a Cause, all embracing a Truth, all anxious to rescue their fellows from aimlessness and unbelief. They would probably all agree that Liberalism Is Bankrupt (though here I may be doing them too much injustice). At any rate, what Mr. Chase calls "yesterday's scientific truth" rouses them to no enthusiasm. Whether this yearning for humanism, salvation, discipline, the Perfect State, social duty, practical reason, a faith that can move mountains, Wisdom, and the rest is a sign of youth...
Mississippi was practically bankrupt when Theodore Bilbo left the Governor's mansion in 1932 and so was he. Last year he could not raise $500 to settle a claim against his $75,000 "dream home" at Poplarville, where he grows pecans. A cousin took the place over and Democrat Bilbo was delighted to get a $6,000-a-year job in Washington clipping newspapers for AAA in an office across the hall from the men's toilet (TIME, July 3, 1933). It looked as if the runty, pistol-scarred backwoodsman was politically through. But when he heard that...
...Harry, who had literary ambitions, let his better judgment go hang when pretty Trix urged him, and embezzled his library's funds to get some easy money. That time he and everyone else got away with it. But 1921 was a different story: cotton slumped, stocks crashed, mills went bankrupt. Everyone had to haul in his kite. Trix, who had cometted to London as a musicomedy star, went home and contented herself with a soberer Harry. Speculator Samuel took to pushing a cart, selling hot potatoes. Houghtons were sold up, moved away. As Author Hodson brings down a slow curtain...
Noble Sissle has been twice bankrupt, many times successful. During one of his flush periods, he met Alfred Stern, son-in-law of the late Julius Rosenwald. Last week the Rosenwald Fund helped out Sissle's pageant to the tune of $3,000. Sissle wrote the book for the show, gathered around him such Negro musicians as N. Clark Smith, son of an African tribesman and an authority on African music, William Vodery, who arranged most of Ziegfeld's Show Boat music. Will Marion Cook ("Ghost Ship"), Harry Lawrence Freeman ("Voodoo"), Harry T. Burleigh ("Deep River" ). J. Rosamund Johnson ("Lazy...