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...pressure to sell their product, he said, these industries can't take time to educate the public to like better entertainment. Capp thinks the public would learn to like better movies and programs if it had a chance to hear and see them. Movies, radio, and television would go bankrupt before they could complete this education, he said...
...hand of Actress Josie Mansfield. By the time Gould was ousted from the Erie presidency in 1872, he had looted the treasury and wrecked the Erie's finances. Although it bravely extended its line to Chicago by 1875, it remained top-heavy with debt, repeatedly went bankrupt...
...what he is and even puts up with all he isn't. He buzzes, jollies, flirts, cajoles, tipsily involves the French niece in a minor small-town scandal. Though baseless in itself, the scandal manages to shake up the other people into auditing their close-to-bankrupt lives...
Fedya Nikitin personifies this new twentieth-century faith that is encroaching upon the bankrupt culture of the West. As cultural attache of the Paris office of the "Free Commonwealth" (a new name given the U.S.S.R. in the 1950's), Fedya has unquestioning faith in the ideals of the Party. Koestler maims the impact that such a character might have, however, for Fedya appears as more of an anthropomorphized concept than a real man with a fixed idea...
...school, he worked as a pipe fitter's helper, as a laborer in a brickyard, once bummed his way halfway across the U.S. in a freight car, taking odd jobs. He got an LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1925, was hired by Prudential to help reorganize the bankrupt railroads in which the company had investments. Shanks later took over the job of employee relations, did so well that he was made executive vice president. He was made president of Prudential...