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...further bill passed by the Imperial Parliament authorized the Bank of Japan to lend up to 200,000,000 yen ($99,700,000) in order to restore financial institutions in Formosa which went bankrupt amid the panic...
...TIME, April 18) onetime Chancellor Snowden hobbled in last week, like a malignant witch doctor and rapped seering words: "The Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] is a costly luxury. . . and a ghastly failure. . . . "His first† budget was a rich man's budget, his second- was that of a profligate bankrupt, and this, his third, is a combination of both with jugglery and deceit added .- "I believe that the present budget offers us at best but a temporary reprieve by means of artful dodges. . . . I predict that, even if no unforseen events happen next year, the Chancellor [Mr. Churchill] will find...
...three generations like the waters from his father's California flumes. With the late Edward Henry Harriman he organized a $67,000,000 company to build tunnels under Chicago to carry freight underground to the stores; they lost. He controlled the Kansas City Railway & Light Co.; it went bankrupt. In 1920 bankers saved Armour & Co. from bankruptcy by reorganizing it at J. Ogden Armour's chief cost. In 1923 he was the chief owner of Chicago bank stocks; he had to sell $5,000,000 in stocks to cover a $20,000,000 loan. The receivership of the Chicago, Milwaukee...
...idea of a deluxe edition of his book, illustrated by the best contemporary artists. This was printed, and the few copies offered to the public were snapped up at 30 guineas ($150) apiece; but the book cost 90 guineas per copy to produce and so Mr. Lawrence went bankrupt. The present edition is to recoup this bankruptcy. The original work, called The Seven Pillars of Wisdom, is now on sale in a minute U. S. edition at $20,003 a copy;? and the present volume is a very drastic abridgment...
Smarter Germans realized that Ufa is practically bankrupt and may possibly go into receivership unless subvened by the Reich Government. Herr Hugenberg is very close to the men back of the present Government-the industrialists. Where the Deutsche Bank can not blatantly demand a subsidy, he can slyly suggest one. And he can repay Reichstag favors by his control of news channels-through his own newspapers, his news agency and, now, his films...