Word: bankrupt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French Legion of Honor, Papal Knight-Commander of the Order of St. Sylvester, etc. Last November 11, the Catholic sisters of Maryknoll, Ossining, N. Y., received a cable from the sisters of their Mercy Hospital for the Insane near Shanghai reading: "Can you send money for food? Lo bankrupt." Mr. Lo, who had long supported Mercy Hospital, had slid from being one of the richest men in China into bankruptcy when Chinese looted and burned his properties, believing him to be pro-Japanese. Philanthropist Lo headed the recently organized Shanghai Civic Association, suspected of being a Japanese-inspired group which...
...Cooke, who made his name and fortune financing the Union in the Civil War, went bankrupt during the Panic of 1873, and from the ashes of his Philadelphia banking house arose the firm of Chas...
...baseness, vileness or depravity." Few hours later, free under a $1,000 bail bond, she was ferried to Manhattan to await the outcome of an appeal to the U. S. Circuit Court. Same day Judge Mandelbaum's ruling was made, members of the cast of Manhattan's bankrupt and closed French Casino, where Magda de Fontages was to cavort, sailed on the Normandie, weeping bitterly. Said one: "We gave New York some of the best nudes they've ever seen here...
...verge of resignation again." U. S. women's clubs, which have been cabling Ambassador Davis plea after plea for "Peace," were exhorted by a French observer at Brussels to save their cable money, persuade "American Womanhood" to switch from silk to cotton stockings, thus bankrupt silk-raising Japan, save China...
...Maria Shelton), a fading actress whose contract makes it worth a cutter's job to take out one of her closeups; 3) Quintain (Humphrey Bogart), a smart, dog-loving producer, driven to drink by his passion for Cheri; 4) Nassau (C. Henry Gordon), a promoter who tries to bankrupt the studios and buy up control...