Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Status Quo. The "condition" of British trade unionism was starkly revealed last week by President Havelock Wilson of the Seamen's Union: "Nearly every trade union in Great Britain is bankrupt in consequence of the disastrous collapse of the General Strike (TIME, May 24). . . . Hundreds of thousands of men are refusing to pay dues to their unions. . . . The men are deserting and forming new unions." Total Deadlock. The striking miners have voted during the past fortnight on a peace proposal submitted by a group of English bishops (TIME, July 26, Aug. 9) for the settlement of the coal strike...
Died. James R. Smith, president of the Atlanta Real Estate Board, director of the bankrupt Bankers' Trust Co. and Farmers & Traders Bank of Atlanta; at Atlanta. Bewildered by the bankruptcies, he pressed the trigger of a loaded shotgun with his toe, drove all the gun with his toe, drove the pellets into his abdomen...
...President of the Bank of Parma; Giambattista Biaggi, Swiss Consul General at Genoa; and Professor Alessandro Groppali of the University of Parma. They were jailed last week on sealed charges. Allegedly the President and the Professor had misused their influence as prominent Fascists to abstract quietly from the recently bankrupt Bank of Parma many a golden lira. The detention of these particular gentlemen was notable. All are intimates of Roberto Farinacci, recently deposed as Secretary General of the Fascist party, because of his arbitrary and ruthless extermination not only of the foes of Fascismo but of his personal enemies...
Anarchist ; bankrupt ; blackleg ; black-sheep ; brainstorm ; briber ; crook ; crooked ; damaged-goods chap ; destitute ; extreme poverty...
...will lecture on the development of money and banking in England before 1800. This was admittedly not the great period of such institutions, but it may be considered as interesting as any. The growth of usury until the Church sanctioned it is a story of constant struggle between bankrupt monarchs and the money lenders whom they could threaten...