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...expired, began the general bituminous strike, a strike that is not settled yet. Through successive months of hope, doggedness, anger, misery, squalor, International President John L. Lewis exhorted the United Mine Workers to take "no backward step" from their demands for continuance of Jacksonville rates. Many an operator went bankrupt. Many a head was broken in fights between union pickets and company "scabs" or police. The strong companies remanned their mines with non-union...
...panic rumors-again with repercussions in Manhattan. Fascist censors were suppressing, it was declared, the fact that Italian bankruptcies have risen from 500 per month in 1923 to over 900 per month. Substantial Italian banks with capitalizations of between one and 600 million lira were stated to be going bankrupt at the rate of one such institution every fortnight. Finally bills to a total value of three and a half million lira were declared to have been dishonored during the past twelvemonth in the three provinces of Rome, Milan and Turin...
Simultaneously the Count's attorneys in Vienna cabled that the Republican Courts of Austria have denied him the right to plead as a pauper or bankrupt, "on the grounds that Count Karolyi continues to reside in such expensive capitals as Paris, London and New York...
...Zimmermann & Forshay. But David F. S. Forshay died in 1895 and Leopold Zimmermann went on alone. A rich and feverishly busy potentate, with his offices at No. 170 Broadway jammed with speculators. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1919 when the German mark was behaving in a dizzy manner. A bankrupt. That was Leopold Zimmermann in 1923 when the German mark went shooting down to nothing. His firm failed for more than $7,000,000. He paid creditors $5,000,000 of what he owed them with his own fortune and with some money that the Mixed Claims Commission awarded...
...gangling 26-year-old youth in 1924, set out to pander to the public by founding three tabloid newspapers, against the wishes of his family. He used on his masthead the phrase: "The public be served." Within two years, his tabloids (in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami) went bankrupt (TIME, May 10, 1926, et seq.]. Vanderbilt IV then functioned as special writer for the Hearst New York Mirror, appealed to the masses with sneering remarks about his family's plutocratic mansion on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan...