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...Senate bill and offers no suitable alternative. But the life of S. 377 is only five years and it would involve a minimum of control. Amendments to the bill insure that it will not endanger the freedoms in medical education. The alternative of letting the medical schools go bankrupt would entail a much more severe form of federal control, especially in a time...
When the war was over, Apthorp House once again went on private sale. But the cost of its upkeep was so great that no owner could keep it very long without going bankrupt. Even so, during the 1800's the Bishop's Palace was one of the show places of New England society. The deep window seats, spacious rooms and wide windows, the old staircase with its three original baluster patterns still intact, and the white pine mantelpiece of the dining room with its surrounding work of original old Dutch tiles, made the building one of the main points...
...bringing in $5,000,000 a year, second only to Kimberley's diamond mines. Wild speculation broke out in land and feathers. Prices flew up to $500 a lb. in 1913, before the inevitable crash. Many an ostrich tycoon went to bed a millionaire and woke up bankrupt. Some of them trekked southward to raise oranges; the gaudy Victorian mansions they had built slowly fell to pieces in a weird jumble of white gables and green cupolas. Max Rose, who came to South Africa from Lithuania in 1890, was one of the few ex-millionaires who stuck with...
...could drive those measures through, Arthur Vandenberg was the most important U.S. foreign policy leader in Congress for the crucial years 1945-49. In a contemplative moment, Arthur Vandenberg once said that he was "the luckiest man alive." In some respects, he was. His father, a harnessmaker, went bankrupt in the panic of 1893. But nine-year-old Arthur went to work, prospered in a line of schoolboy enterprises, quit the University of Michigan after a year, and got himself a job on the Grand Rapids Herald. There he admired and studied the flamboyant oratorical style of Michigan Congressman William...
...sister into putting up the money for her stake. Eager to climb the garment center escalator from dresses to frocks to gowns, she double-crosses Dailey by making a tricky deal with an unctuous department-store tycoon (George Sanders). But when the time comes to leave her partners bankrupt and give Sanders his price (payable in his bachelor quarters), the tigress melts into a woman with a weakness for long-suffering Salesman Dailey...