Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...keep the wind away". Another will undoubtedly take the place so long maintained by the followers of the Ibis. Indeed, the communication in this column is greatly at variance with the opinion of the CRIMSON in the matter. Though well able to cooperate with the Advocate in financing the bankrupt publication, the CRIMSON fears that any such move will but add to Lampie's already over heavy lead of debts. And it is against sound business principles to attempt the financially impossible. Yet there is no reason why some attempt should not made to restore to Harvard her fountain...
...Representative Burton of Ohio (Republican), who are both members of the Ways and Means Committee and of the Debt Funding Commission, and by Representative Ogden L. Mills of New York, one of the financial experts on the Committee. The argument they presented for the agreement was simple: Italy is bankrupt; these are the best terms we can get; this is all that Italy can pay. Representative Mills turned to the opposition with the declaration that the average income of the Italians is less than one-sixth of the income of the average American; whereas the average American spends...
...died an unhappy, dissatisfied mortal, super-abundantly rich in millions but bankrupt in friends. He was so engrossed in battling fiercely for money that he took no time to acquire education and nursed such a nature that he became incapable of attracting troops of friends. The last time I visited his native state, newspapers were full of condemnation of alleged tactics on his part to relieve him of certain taxes. His own people apparently regarded him in the same light as he was regarded in the financial and business world...
...Building on lower Broadway, in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, Federal Judge Bondy was holding court. A case was called and it was discovered that the jury panel had been exhausted. Morris Wilkenfeld and Louis Frankel, indicted for concealing assets from the trustee in charge of their bankrupt fur firm, were not to be thus saved from trial...
WHITE CARGO-A somewhat artificial but theatrically effective portrait of an Englishman gone morally bankrupt in Africa...