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...died an unhappy, dissatisfied mortal, super-abundantly rich in millions but bankrupt in friends. He was so engrossed in battling fiercely for money that he took no time to acquire education and nursed such a nature that he became incapable of attracting troops of friends. The last time I visited his native state, newspapers were full of condemnation of alleged tactics on his part to relieve him of certain taxes. His own people apparently regarded him in the same light as he was regarded in the financial and business world...
...Building on lower Broadway, in the heart of Manhattan's financial district, Federal Judge Bondy was holding court. A case was called and it was discovered that the jury panel had been exhausted. Morris Wilkenfeld and Louis Frankel, indicted for concealing assets from the trustee in charge of their bankrupt fur firm, were not to be thus saved from trial...
WHITE CARGO-A somewhat artificial but theatrically effective portrait of an Englishman gone morally bankrupt in Africa...
India. Home again, he found his father bankrupt through unwise generosity to his numerous relatives, to whom the good Hindu, following religious precept, could not refuse assistance while he had wealth to give. Young Das immediately assumed his father's obligations, worked hard at the legal profession, eventually amassed a considerable fortune. And when the voice of the Mahatma, Gandhi, was heard calling upon the masses to awake, he answered, and gradually dissipated his fortune...
...proposal to reduce the tariff for British-grown sugar was passed, 190 to 98. Chancellor of the Exchequer Winston Churchill claimed that it was absolutely necessary to protect the West Indian and other sugar industries or see them go bankrupt...