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...Grease the Guillotine." He found Germany bankrupt, its economy collapsing. One night in Berlin he heard a Communist mob marching under his window singing: "Grease the guillotine with the fat of tyrants . . . Blood must flow." It seemed, to him that Western civilization was dying...
When Art Valpey arrived in Cambridge last February, most of the self-styled experts felt sorry for this bright young man. He was supposed to be inheriting a bankrupt franchise on the Charles, where prestige was non-existent and morale appallingly low. The experts set up a sympathetic wailing for the innocent victim who was walking into a hornets' nest of powerful Ivy League squads that would decimate his team and rend his players limb from limb...
...there nothing, then, the U.S. could do? The hard truth was that the U.S. position in China was almost bankrupt. The New York Times reported: "Military Aid for China Is Sent in Navy Vessels." EGA officials did their best to step up shipping schedules, get cargoes of rice into Shanghai, whose authorities were harassed by food riots. But it was too late for such slight and tardy assurances of friendship and aid to have much practical or spiritual effect...
Authorities estimated that he had taken in $5,000,000 in the last two years, and had delivered about 1,300 cars. How many suckers had been cheated, no one knew for sure. As the news spread, they started a run on Bob's showroom, but too late. Bankrupt Bob was under charges of fraud, and there were almost no assets...
...founder of the Ingersoll watch company ("the watch that made the dollar famous"); from injuries when he was hit by an automobile; in West Orange, NJ. Ingersoll and his brother Robert turned out their first dollar watch in 1892, made about 100 million of them before they went bankrupt and their assets were sold to the Waterbury Clock...