Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pathe's stockholders accused its president of breaking the French law against forming dummy companies. Following year Pathe was declared bankrupt, whereupon M. Tanenzapf's connection with the company ended. Last spring Paris courts approved prosecution of M. Tanenzapf on a charge of "fraudulent creation of a fictitious majority" in Pathe stock, opened his books to a stockholders' committee, whose pryings uncovered the evidence for last fortnight's arrest...
Window Shopping (by Louis E. Shecter & Norman Clark) tells of a near-bankrupt department store which, as a desperation publicity stunt, has a young girl live by day, then undress and sleep by night, in one of its windows. The girl packs the store with customers. It will be more of a trick to pack the theatre with them...
Last week, in Fayette Circuit Court, witnesses told why. They knew Build, they testified, as J. D. Amason, operator of a bankrupt poultry farm at Flintville, Tenn. But beyond that they unfolded a stranger story: Build-Amason had served four prison terms, including one at Atlanta (where he learned his art), and had once shot his way out of a hanging case in Texas...
...statues but his poultry farm got him in trouble. When it went bankrupt he tried to flee Tennessee, taking his automobile (on which he had three mortgages) and a truckload of chickens. Chased by deputy sheriffs to Nashville, the sculptor abandoned his car, ran across country, got away, leaving a lawsuit between the three finance companies and his statues of horses and dogs, to mark his strange passage through the bluegrass country...
...speak English. On borrowed money he bought a pushcart, tramped Newark's streets collecting wastepaper. In two years he had a horse and wagon, traded them for a two-cylinder Autocar in 1918. By 1926 the Desiderios owned a 100-truck fleet. When the old Clifton firm went bankrupt six years ago, they turned up with a batch of uncollected bills and a checkbook. By 1935 they had two more plants - in Whippany, N. J. and Durham, Pa. But their first is still their pride...