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...yuan ($100,000,000 to $133,000,000) a year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last year China's trade showed an excess of imports amounting to $200,000,000 and if this continues a few more years the Chinese Republic will be bankrupt." Then came the protest proper: "China ought first to readjust her debts before any more money is loaned. Unless such a readjustment is made an added burden will be placed on the Chinese which will tend to delay unification of the country and the attainment of order and prosperity. . . . This is what Japan...
...shipped back to his native Jamaica as an undesirable alien. Every time he got himself elected to something in Jamaica, he somehow got himself jailed for something else. Harlem Negroes took his Universal Negro Improvement Association away from him by default and he founded another. When that went bankrupt, he started a third. His Jamaica newspaper, The Blackman, and his Edelweiss* Amusement Corp. (vaudeville, cinemas and an amusement park) did better, until last year when they, too, went broke, but not before Marcus Garvey had been jailed again for seditious libel in The Blackman. When he grew tired...
Last week at Asheville, N. C. a Federal judge signed an order directing a U. S. marshal to take possession of all assets of Galahad Press, Inc. Galahad Press formally "averred" to the court that it should be declared bankrupt. Among its creditors a local printer claimed $2,695, an editor claimed $130 pay, a firm in Washington $111. This routine little failure was a blow to no great publisher, but it was a blow to a big man in the shirt business...
...Guggenheims, appeared with an offer to buy the Salvadora mine, which Simon Patino had acquired from a Portuguese prospector in payment for a grocery bill-a deal which cost the clerk his store job. Patino wanted to sell but his wife did not. "We will go bankrupt with Salvadora," she cried, "or you will be el gran Mirador, the greatest of tin miners." Senor Patino climbed on his mule and went back to his mine...
...circumstances but reveals rather the master mind behind Germany's struggles to circumvent Versailles and her creditor nations. The result today has been all that Germany could have desired. In the eyes of the outside world she has managed to place herself in that invulnerable position, a virtually bankrupt debtor, while at home show has managed to appear sufficiently solvent to keep the mark at par and prevent another inflation. It mush be added that the threat of inflation is perhaps her strongest bargaining point, not only in U. S. but in Europe. Should inflation occur, even though moderately, Germany...