Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Bankrupt Europe-particularly her bankrupt aristocracy-sees her priceless art treasures slipping from her grasp by those pitiless economic forces which have made New York the financial capital of the world. The alarming inroads have roused Governments. Lord Curzon in a public speech said many valuable works in Britain's private libraries were crossing the Atlantic. American imports of paintings, etchings and antiques from London only for the first six months of 1923 were $3,716,644, and will probably exceed $8,000,000 for the year. Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden, Unionist M. P. for Lancashire, broached the subject...
France is owed, principally by partially insolvent or bankrupt countries (Russia, Belgium, Yugo-Slavia, Rumania, Greece, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia, Italy, Montenegro, Esthonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary and Austria), a total of 15,282,000,000 gold francs ($2,949,426,000). Hence the French feel justified in excluding their debts to England and America from consideration in their budgets, until the matters of Germany's reparations and the debts of other nations to France can likewise be considered...
Liberals," said The New Republic, " what do you want? . . . Both old parties are intellectually bankrupt, twin ghosts, empty of meaning, devoid of conviction?the outs and the ins. Somebody, some day, is going to blow them into new life ?or into smithereens...
...Wall Street made huge sums of money. But the business becomes immediately unprofitable on a rising stock market. That is why so many bucketshop failures occurred between August, 1921, and the peak of the high market last Fall. Rising prices did vastly more than any other factor to bankrupt these pretended brokerage concerns...
...Vane", goes to Europe as a canteen worker. After the armistice she meets in a convalescent hospital her old lover who is now married to her best friend, and she feels it her duty to care for him and nurse him back to health. Meanwhile her father has gone bankrupt and has died from the shock, but Abigail, friendless and in financial straits, still has strength to refuse the wounded man's earnest proposal, though she loves him, and to make her way "into the black night--alone...