Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...
Bankruptcy laws of today were not part of the old common law. A bankrupt was treated as a criminal. Statutes eventually freed debtors from the fear of prison and by passing through bankruptcy m his own community a man could be released from all his debts anywhere in the U. S. except for taxes and debts for fraud or willful injury. Yet thousands of indebted individuals, because of distaste for bankruptcy or ignorance or inability to take advantage of bankruptcy provisions, have suffered the penalty of having their wages or salaries attached under garnishment proceedings. There were an estimated...
...Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet as one of its first acts, the 40-hour week applies to French hotels, and according to their managers this would mean hiring enough extra hotel servants to bankrupt the industry. At latest reports, tourists in France were still enjoying every hotel comfort, but the hotel operators threatened through their association to stage a nation-wide lockout of hotel workers for at least 24 hours, to emphasize their protest...
Virginia Travis (Miriam Hopkins), an aspiring architectural student, applies to B. J. Nolan (Charles Winninger) for a job with his projected model suburb. She finds Nolan is bankrupt, his heartless son Kenneth (Joel McCrea). possessor of a million dollars, having refused to help him. Kenneth, a cautious man when sober, will buy anything when drunk, and the climax of Woman Chases Man is the way in which Miss Travis gets Kenneth's signature to the contract for Nolan Heights. Her efforts are complicated by the connivings of Nina Tennyson (Leona Maricle) whom Kenneth has brought home with him from...
...first time it made money—enough money to pay off its debts. Can it do so? On its life it cannot. If it did the new law would assess on it a confiscatory tax almost as large as its debt, and that would bankrupt it—prosperous though...