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...crash did not exactly give Braden a social conscience; it awakened one. Dinted but by no means bankrupt, he did some heavy thinking which later led ex-Attorney General Homer Cummings to say: "Braden just couldn't help convincing himself that he was a progressive...
...long run, Filipino businessmen knew that reconstruction is more a political than an industrial problem. Will the U.S. advance funds to shore up the bankrupt Philippine Treasury and grant long-term credits for the purchase of machinery? More important, will Philippine independence, scheduled for June 1, 1946, mean that the U.S. will throw up a tariff wall against the import of sugar, tobacco and other products into the U.S. market? If this happens, many a Filipino businessman feels that reconstruction will be impossible...
...bought 18 pairs of size 11 socks. To Eddie, who hadn't won a pot in the poker game, he chuckled: "I thought you'd need this sale, after what we did to you last night." Then, recalling the dark day in 1922 when they had gone bankrupt, he asked, "How's business, anyhow...
...career, and in 1923 he was neck deep (though later cleared) in a $2½ million stock swindle involving his vast theater holdings. About that time, his shrewd judgment of box-office began to fail him. After passing up an option on Abie's Irish Rose, he went bankrupt in 1926. Assets: $200. Liabilities...
...perched on the side of his head. His own battery of cameramen were on hand to take his picture. So attired, Jeffers presided over, and paid for, a dinner so lavish that Ak-Sar-Ben hastily barred such parties in the future to keep their new kings from going bankrupt...