Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...onetime Partner Albert L. Rankin as receiver of Whitehall, a Palm Beach hotel, and accepted $4,500 from Rankin in return; he collected $7,500 through other receiverships; he took a $2,000 legal fee while on the bench; he accepted free food, lodging and valet service at the bankrupt hotel of which his sister-in-law was made manager...
...candidate for office, and hence less philosophic than Governor Curley (see above), is Michigan's onetime (1932-35) Governor William Alfred Comstock, a Democratic wheelhorse who went bankrupt last year, but whose cash and efforts had been credited with sustaining his Party in Michigan through some 30 lean, mostly Republican, years. Charging that National Chairman Farley had broken a 1932 promise to distribute Michigan's Federal jobs through the regular Party organization, handing patronage instead to such political parvenus as Father Coughlin, Democrat Comstock last week announced his resignation from the Party. Cried he: "The Hogskis...
When Lenglen turned professional, tennis authorities were loudly indignant. They anticipated immediate trouble when other amateurs followed her example. Promoter Pyle went bankrupt, Suzanne Lenglen retired and professional tennis was in the doldrums when it was rescued by Miss Lenglen's onetime trainer, William O'Brien, now No. 1 impresario of the game. Since 1931, his tennis tours have grossed $750,000. Among the 14 onetime amateurs he has induced to play for him have been Francis T. Hunter, Vincent Richards, Henri Cochet, George Lott. Major attraction of the O'Brien troupe has always been Tilden...
That a practically bankrupt nation should cmbark on a great imperialistic adventure was remarkable. That Italy, laboring under the stress of badly disarranged conditions within and effective financial sanctions without, has-managed to live on its nerves for such a long time, is even more remarkable. However astonishing, the course of events is, nevertheless, explicable, first by political necessity and later by that phenomenon known as war fever. But now that the little fat that Italy had is gone, and now that there can be no buoying military success, the largely unseen currents of public opinion may soon well...
...never tire of talking about Britain's No. 1 conductor. His father was Sir Joseph Beecham, an amateur veterinarian who made a fortune with patent pills, earned a baronetcy with his many philanthropies and still left plenty for his son to squander on music. Sir Thomas once went bankrupt for the sake of music in England. At a conservative estimate his losses have amounted to over...