Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...thought of himself. It was literally true, Cobb of The World was thinking of the world. He said to me : "Theodore Roosevelt, succeeding to William McKinley as President, fell heir to an almost perfect party machine, which never in his time failed to function. Today Republican leadership is bankrupt, rent by volt.' " faction, oppressed by mutterings of revolt...
...vacation in Boston. He heard theft the Boston Post was nearly bankrupt. It was a challenge. He stepped in and bought the paper. He then had: $100 cash, 3,000 subscribers, a debt of $150,000 and an average net loss of $2,500 a week...
...Wonderful Visit. Another dream play, less truant. It achieves a Messianic message without driving one's tear ducts bankrupt. H. G. Wells and St. John Ervine, in dramatizing Wells' early novel of the same name, have discarded much of its pungent satire, playing safe with more drama. They set forth the earthly visit of an angel, intent on spreading sweetness and light, who finds himself gradually steeped in sticky mortality. He seeks tolerance for a lovelorn housemaid left with a war baby, lashes a war profiteer who forces his attentions on her, agitates the lady of the manor...
...called upon in the next few days to take on our shoulders the responsibilities of office. We shall take it. Not because we want it. Has anyone here been so foolish as to hasten the demise of a father who is about to leave him a bankrupt estate ? We know there are risks on every side, but if there are risks there is also a cause." Thus spake Ramsay MacDonald at the Royal Albert Hall in London at a Labor rally...
Lord Alfred Douglas. Lord Alfred's evidence dealt principally with his career as an editor. It was brought out, however, that he was an undischarged bankrupt. On being asked to leave the witness box, he burst forth: "I consider that I have been treated in a most grossly unfair way. I have not been allowed to put my case at all. I have not been able to tell why I wrote the articles and where I got the information from. It is the most abominable piece of unfairness I have ever seen in my life...