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Perhaps the most tragic irony in the whole history of the Hitler era was that he boldly announced his plans of conquest, while the rest of the world stood by, either unbelieving or too morally bankrupt to act. It is incredible that only one year after the conclusion of the bloodiest war in history, the United States, through the Act of Chapultepee, stands in quasi-alliance with the potentially great Fascist power of the next generation, while at the same time the Soviet Union enters upon diplomatic relations with that power. Whatever the decisions of the Paris conference, so long...
...Teamed with his late brother George 'also twice a bankrupt)* in a real estate leal that came under the scrutiny of a graft-hunting investigation in New York City. For $25,000 cash the Garssons got property that was soon condemned for park extension and bought by the city...
...bill provides that any bankrupt road may be turned over to stockholders' control if it 1) earned enough to meet fixed charges during the preceding seven years and 2) grossed more than $50 million in any one of the preceding three years. The new law affects reorganization proceedings on five major roads...
...start he gave it, Pressed Steel coasted onward & upward through 30 years of prosperity, during which stockholders drew $38 million in dividends. Over the years Pressed Steel grew staid and conservative, floundered badly in the Big Depression, went bankrupt in 1933, barely survived a bitter reorganization battle, still operated at a loss...
...first thing Boss Veeck did was to count the customers. The 8,526 who went to see the Indians beat the league-leading Red Sox were a pretty small band. But there were only 22 people in the stands the day Veeck bought the bankrupt Milwaukee Brewers in 1941. Veeck soon put his theory to work in Milwaukee: good baseball for the fans, something extra for those who aren...