Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends the contractors supplied him. Consequently he got a bad reputation, lapsed into weak self-pity. When his brother decided to reside in England permanently, Stephen managed to join him again, began to let his business slide. Maxwell bought "Shipmates," the country seat of Sir Nigel Fearless, a bankrupt baronet, who promptly proceeded to drown himself as a family tradition required. Great was Stephen's resentment when his brother fell in love with the baronet's widow, made a will in her favor. He felt that he had been unjustly cheated out of an inheritance. When Maxwell tried...
...State Controller of New York, the City Auditor of New Smyrna, Fla.-such men. 75 of them, last week trooped down Chicago's sweltering Midway to Judson Court at the University of Chicago. There they held a Conference on Municipal Finance, to work out reconstruction measures for bankrupt U. S. cities...
heavyweight boxing champion who had filed as a bankrupt with liabilities including a $14,390 breach of promise judgment to a London waitress, testified that he possessed only an automobile, $631 cash. Asked about his profits from the Sharkey fight, he grunted: "No see that money...
...Dresden, in accordance with its tradition, had put on the world premiere of another of his operas. This one was Arabella, the libretto for which had been written by Strauss's longtime collaborator, Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, just before he died. It concerned the daughters of a bankrupt Viennese count, the youngest of whom paraded through three acts dressed as a boy and finally ended by marrying one of her sister's suitors...
Last week in Tampa, Fla. Barron Gift Collier,* famed organizer of car card advertising, virtually declared himself bankrupt. He did not use the exact word. What he said was that he could not pay all his debts immediately and wanted a moratorium. He thus became first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the new bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed the day before he left office...