Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...represent Hollywood Country Club, Hollywood, Calif., and wish to direct your attention to an article which appeared in your Feb. 6 issue under the heading of "Bankrupt Clubs" which in so far as it applies to Hollywood Country Club, reads as follows: "Other well-known U. S. clubs which have gone bankrupt or disbanded in the last two years: . . . Hollywood Country Club...
Dean Harry Augustus Bigelow of the University of Chicago Law School was appointed trustee of bankrupt Insull Utility Investments, Inc., after Calvin Fentress and William W. Wheelock had been disqualified by Judge Wilkerson because they were elected by the debenture holder's protective committee, supposedly partial to the Insulls. Dean Bigelow's feelings: "Begin at the bottom and work...
...Jolly John and his crowd continue to play ball with the administration, and both parties find room in the trough. Meantime a series of mysterious murders, in which the victim invariably has a hoof-mark around the left eye, helps make plain people restive. When the city goes bankrupt for $576,000,000, with its Mayor junketing in Paris, public apathy is at last aroused. At a property-owners' protest banquet, winged words fan the flames. "Poison'ly, Mister Tussmester and fellow goats, poison'ly, I'm getting tired eating all the tin kens our friends...
...partly because of the renewed confidence which will be shown in the reformed banking system. There are, indeed, certain dangers. If some banks open before others, those which open later may have to suffer runs. Of the three classes of banks, the solvent, the semi-solvent, and the bankrupt, it is the second class which is now threatened and which may be hard put to it by a series of runs on reopening. Such difficulties, however, I believe, will be overcome. We are now on the eve of a period of progress that will be greater than any which...
Last week the following were news: A Federal grand jury in Chicago last week indicted 19 officials of the bankrupt Insull holding company, Corporation Securities Co., for using the mails to defraud. Among those indicted (on 25 counts) : The Insulls, Samuel, Martin John and Samuel Jr., Edward J. Doyle, president of Commonwealth Edison Co., Harold Leonard Stuart, head of Insull bankers Halsey, Stuart & Co., Stanley Field, board chairman of Chicago's big Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust...