Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile, Laborites proposed a motion of censure, which if carried would call for the fall of the Cabinet. The Leader of the Opposition, Laborite Clement Attlee, shrilled: "Mussolini is a bankrupt dictator, yet it is just at this time that the Prime Minister goes whining to him for an agreement on any terms...
...threat which made it a practical necessity for the U. S. to join the rest of the world (excluding The Netherlands and Scandinavia) in the current armament marathon, to take a further step away from the economy of welfare and toward the economy of warfare prevailing in the bankrupt nations of the world...
...belly, cocking a snook at his eager literary undertakers. Four years ago his plentiful enemies rushed him to his grave when he ended a nine-year editorship of the American Mercury. Said an American Spectator obituary: "It was most fitting that his last pieces were contributed to an ideologically bankrupt American Mercury and that intellectual hara-kiri found him there." Again, in 1936, when Westbrook Pegler discovered Mr. Mencken (who had stumped against Harding, Coolidge, Smith, Hoover & Roosevelt) ". . . staggering down the street under the unwieldy weight of an enormous Landon banner, a sunflower in his lapel...
...paid dividends regularly since 1909. In 1936 its profits were $1,200,000, an amount not remarkable for a company of its size but very comforting to Mr. Whitcomb when he reflects that not so long ago 40% of all North American newsprint capacity was bankrupt...
When he overreached himself and went bankrupt, he headed for Manhattan, made a quick fortune in cigarets. Boredom drove him into the munitions business. In Paris, Ulysses created the armament cartel which did the main work in preparing both sides for the World War. In old age "his soul expanded in its power and goodness." Peacefully dead at 71, he got magnificent funerals in Greece and England, canonization by the Church. In accordance with his last will, he was buried simply in his native Greek village, his enormous fortune split into a thousand bequests...