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Cafe society's Patricia Anne ("Honeychile") Wilder went bankrupt for $8,212.24-mostly clothes and a $600 phone bill. ≤≤ Tallulah Bankhead took her lion cub to the zoo for a publicity shot, got bitten by a chimpanzee...
...hates Franklin Roosevelt. He thinks the President has betrayed labor, and that only blind men and fools cannot see that he has. Once he complained that the President was not spending enough or fast enough. Now he cries for economy, for bulwarks against inflation; he sees ahead a bankrupt country. The reason: now the money is being spent for armament instead of public works; and John L. Lewis, the man once mentioned for Coolidge's Secretary of Labor, the longtime conservative Republican, the old-fashioned believer in high tariffs and high-laced shoes, is opposed to it as wasteful...
Every so often Steel Tycoon Charles M. Schwab, late, great, bankrupt (TIME, May 26), used to promise a $2,000,000 endowment to his alma mater, St. Francis College in Loretto, Pa. Last week the college revealed that Schwab had left it holding not an endowment but the bag, to the tune of $25,000 he borrowed in 1932 and never repaid...
...Pittsburgh, Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler, leader of the isolationist bloc in Congress, denying that he thought the President "would deliberately lead this nation into . . . war," hammered away at the isolationist theory that Britain is done for. "The American people ... do not want to buy a bankrupt concern. ... If the British Isles . . . are our first line of defense, wouldn't it be sensible to bring about a peace that would save . . . the British fleet...
...continuance of the type of government which my administration has given to them since my entry into the City Commission in 1913." The only major embarrassment that the 65-year-old mayor may face in his next four years of rule is that Jersey City may go bankrupt...