Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Jacobs of Bay St. Louis. One of her sponsors, in helpful vein, asked if she felt like a butterfly on a pin. "Rather a weighty butterfly," smiled 200-lb. Margaret Flint Jacobs. With five of her six children at home and a husband whose toll-bridge had been rendered bankrupt by Huey Long's free bridges, Author Flint let it be known she was in Manhattan for business, not pleasure. "What am I going to do with the money? Well, with five children to educate that is easy to answer. I'm going to spend it for that...
...when a bankrupt flying organization, among whose creditors was the Advocate, was liquidated a short time ago, the Old Women of Plympton Street drew this contraption out of the bag, and for want of better, firmly intends to harbor it on her roof...
...acquittal. Blennerhassett's case, similar to Burr's, was quashed. Glamorous Aaron Burr went on to 29 more years of life and a succession of political intrigues which were as consistently disastrous as his amatory adventures were successful. Blennerhassett went back to his island in the Ohio. Bankrupt and heartbroken at his mansion's ruin, Blennerhassett moved farther south, settling on 1,000 acres of cotton land at St. Catherine's, Miss. Meantime, Blennerhassett Island had been rented to a friend, who subsequently was dispossessed. Creditors took over the estate, leased it to a farmer...
...scoundrel, Dan Drew was finally cornered in 1870, by Gould and Fisk who caused an unexpected rise in Erie shares. Drew's fall thereafter was rapid. In 1876 he was bankrupt, his liabilities exceeding $1,000,000. Old, ignorant and despised, Daniel Drew spent his last years dependent on his son. But he had one consolation-religion. He was a pious Methodist whom Wall Street called "Deacon Dan." In the days of his wealth he endowed Drew Theological Seminary (now University) at Madison, N. J. He also contributed heavily to a young ladies' seminary and three churches near...
When Paramount went bankrupt in 1933, a minor consequence appeared to be the fate of three St. Louis cinemansions-the Ambassador, Missouri and New Grand Central-which Paramount and Warner Brothers had jointly operated. Warner took over the theatres and for a time ran them alone. When the theatres failed to make money, mortgages were foreclosed. Warner put in a bid which was rejected. The theatres went to a local company which leased operating rights to the theatrical firm of Fanchon & Marco...