Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...None the less the organizing committee of the Liberal Party found itself so nearly bankrupt last week, that it voted 19 to 14 to accept funds from the ?1,000,000 (84-860,000) private fund controlled by Mr. Lloyd George. The Attorney General, Sir Douglas Hogg, commented: "Lloyd George is using money which he obtained by selling titles while in power, to buy the Liberal Party, so that he can sell its support to the Laborites...
...highest in the profession. For $100 no one can hire me to walk out my office door, if that walking displeases me. Yet last week I was given a fee of $83.75 for representing Allen R. Ryan, son of Thomas Fortune Ryan. I was his lawyer when he went bankrupt, after his 1920 corner of Stutz Motor stock, with $9,000,000 of unsecured debts. Last week those debts were liquidated for approximately 18½c on the dollar. My $83.75 represented my original...
...this dance of death to go on until the whole world is bankrupt, or until man's machinery of warfare becomes so effective that like Dunderbeck he will be ground to sausage meat in his own invention...
...matter of general knowledge that the meals at Memorial Hall were poor. And that one fact has given rise to the present eating situation. If the Harvard Union itself were a regular restaurant, it would have gone bankrupt long ago. The dinner it serves for 90 per cents, for instance, can be surpassed by half a dozen restaurants near the Yard. If the service were good or the bill of fare attractively varied, it might be much more popular than it is, despite the poorly cooked food, but they aren...
Take It From Me (Reginald Denny). A young man is at great pains to bankrupt his large department store, in order to rid himself of a fiancée with designs upon his money. Hence, floorwalkers go roller-skating along the aisles, a "million dollar" fashion show is wedged into the film. He loses the undesirable fiancée, almost loses the store, wins the beautiful stenographer. But this, Take It From Me, is nothing to go out of the way to encounter...