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...political campaign. It's a crusade against intolerable conditions. . . . Five million people walking the streets looking for work! Do you assume the people will . . . say to Hoover: 'You're all right. ... We want more men in the breadlines . . . more businessmen out of business . . . more farmers bankrupt? . . . The people are going to tell the President he has to do more than make long speeches...
...Oswald. Never was leadership more bankrupt than last week at Llandudno. In blind resentment the Conference refused to re-elect to the party Executive Committee of Twelve famed James Henry ("Jim") Thomas, M.P., the jovial Laborite whom Scot MacDonald first made Lord Privy Seal charged with combatting unemployment (TIME, June 17, 1929 et seq.), and when he failed at that gave him his present post, Minister of Dominions...
...husband, then left her for his second wife after his second wife had divorced her second husband; now lives with his second wife. While he was in Amsterdam getting material for this book he tried to raise money to pay Rembrandt's debts, rehabilitate the 300-year-old undischarged bankrupt. Other books: The Story of Mankind, Tolerance, America, The Story of the Bible. R. v. R. is the Literary Guild selection for October...
...Walter Riddell suggested darkly that farmers in America, equipped with tractors and loans at the bank, may be worse off than Europe's simple peasantry, not thus supplied. The overseas farmer he said, "being entirely on a price basis, cannot live unless he sells at a profit." Bankrupt, he loses his farm through foreclosure, and this fate, warned Dr. Riddell, befell "some 2,000.000 U. S. farmers after the slump...
Frank Lloyd Wright Corp. was capitalized by friends October, 1929, with $50,000 preferred stock. Wright, bankrupt, owned no stock. His incorporators' first act was to buy back his famed and beauteous home "Taliesin" at Spring Green, Wis. From Madison's Bank of Wisconsin the rest of the principal was used to finance his office...