Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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India. Home again, he found his father bankrupt through unwise generosity to his numerous relatives, to whom the good Hindu, following religious precept, could not refuse assistance while he had wealth to give. Young Das immediately assumed his father's obligations, worked hard at the legal profession, eventually amassed a considerable fortune. And when the voice of the Mahatma, Gandhi, was heard calling upon the masses to awake, he answered, and gradually dissipated his fortune...
...proposal to reduce the tariff for British-grown sugar was passed, 190 to 98. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill claimed that it was absolutely necessary to protect the West Indian and other sugar industries or see them go bankrupt...
...leapt from the bag. Wild rumors circulated in Berlin: "The House of Stinnes is bankrupt"; "The Stinnes power is unshaken." These were the extreme views. Certain it was that the vast," intricate interests bequeathed by the late Herr Hugo Stinnes were financially embarrassed. Fear was expressed that, since neither Hugo Stinnes Jr. nor any member of the family had been present at the bankers' meeting, the loan was merely a palliative to tide over a situation for a short time in order to save the market from inevitable panic at a time of great depression. But such fears were...
When the St. Paul went bankrupt two months ago (TIME, Mar. 30), many causes were suggested. It is unlikely that the I. C. C. or any other bureau or bureau of bureaus will alter the number of cents on the dollar which bond and stockholders will receive...
Before Senate and Chamber of Deputies was laid by Finance Minister Clementel the national balance sheet of France. With the exception of countries which have declared themselves bankrupt, this is perhaps the first time that a Nation has voluntarily struck a balance sheet...