Word: bankrupts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor he was a brilliant bully. Wells once confessed that he made him feel like a bankrupt undertaker; Classicist Middleton Murry cowered as Harris roared: "God's great fist! You, Murry, wrote this drivel about Paradise Lost?" But Harris befriended Oscar Wilde-though he did not share Oscar's homosexual bent-and the friendship bolstered his social success. It was a time when conversation was still considered a fine art, and Wilde and Harris were two of the greatest conversational artists in London, sought by hostesses for the wit and charm of their anecdotage...
...General Louis J. Lefkowitz charged that "professional racketeers, promoters and boiler-room operators" had bilked investors of $4,000,000. Only this time, said Lefkowitz, the public had company in its misery. Many brokerage houses were sucked into the stock-rigging, sustained such heavy losses that some may go bankrupt...
...charged in a speech on the Senate floor that "this Administration is now, in effect, planning that this nation become a second-rate power." New Jersey's Democratic Governor Robert Meyner told a Democratic gathering in Manhattan that as a result of the Administration's "bankrupt leadership," the U.S. is now "dancing to Russia's tune...
Drought and Depression. By the time Hubert went off to the University of Minnesota in 1929. Doland was feeling the pangs of prolonged drought and imminent depression. Both local banks failed, and Father Humphrey was forced to sell the family home to pay his debts. Bankrupt farmers bartered chickens for their drugs. In Minneapolis, Hubert soaked up the intellectual sunshine, earned his board with a 15?-an-hour clerking job in a campus drugstore, and slept with ten other students in an icy attic. But after his sophomore year he went home. His father could no longer afford to keep...
...minister named James Rayburn, and he felt that it was up to him to do something to bring the Bible alive for teenagers. In 1940 he organized a group in Dallas called Young Life. It grew slowly, gained considerable impetus as Rayburn acquired three ranches in Colorado and a bankrupt vacation resort in British Columbia known as Malibu Beach. The prospect of spending a summer week or more at one of these layouts for a nominal fee of $35 a week did wonders to stimulate the interest of potential Young Lifers...