Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...reaching decision was handed down by Judge Julian W. Mack in the Federal Court, by which State prosecutors can hereafter examine the books of bankrupt brokerage firms for evidence of bucketing and other forms of criminal conversion. Hitherto State and city officials have found it impossible to obtain convictions against bucket-shoppers, who have claimed that such an examination of their books would be unconstitutional, and the equivalent of compelling them to testify against themselves...
...case arose in connection with the bankrupt firm of E. M. Fuller & Co., wherein accountants failed to find any trace of $6,612,000 of securities which should be in the firm's possession. The company failed in 1922, with liabilities of over $1,500,000, and assets of only...
...took over the management of the Casino at his death but it is stated that outside influences in the shape of Mme. Chinon, Sir Basil Zaharoff and Gregory Vigliano gradually divested him of his interest and his wealth. It is stated that Camille is today little better than a bankrupt...
...correspondent of the same paper, at present on a visit to Palestine, condemns the Zionist movement as "an act of British folly." Describing a visit to Jerusalem, he says: "The sad little Zionist settlements are bankrupt; they live on foreign alms. They were built upon a fantastically uneconomic foundation. The opulent dreamers of an exiled Jewry have grown weary of pouring their donations into an insatiable soil of a thirsty land. Without the largesse of rich American and European Jews, Zionism cannot live an hour longer...
Nicholas Coundouris, of cigarette fame: " I taught the English how to smoke cigarettes, made a fortune in tobacco, and now at 88 am declared bankrupt...