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...cabin of Condor NC 12354 at Newark Airport one afternoon last week climbed Pilot Clyde Hoi-brook of American Air Lines, onetime War ace, veteran of 10,000 flying hours. Into the passenger cabin climbed Stewardess Margaret Huckeby, onetime nurse. Four passengers followed them in and, last, Copilot John Barron Jr. "Clear!" cried the dispatcher, and the green spotlight across the field showed clear. Pilot Holbrook took off with a roar and headed north for Chicago by way of Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland...
Fortnight ago Mrs. Barron Gift Collier Jr., daughter-in-law of Car-Card Tycoon Collier, answered a telephone call in her Manhattan home, heard a timid voice ask $200 for the return of some stolen letters. Quick-thinking Mrs. Collier demurred, arranged a second telephone talk, then informed police. When a messenger called, Mrs. Collier gave him a bundle of paper instead of $200, later convinced her blackmailer that he had been bilked by his own messenger. Last week she dragged out to ten minutes her sixth telephone conversation with him, was relieved to hear him suddenly plead...
...merely to failure of cameramen to click. Only smoking-picture of Mr. Roosevelt in the files of Manhattan agencies is here shown (see cut). It was taken seven months before his election, at a Manhattan luncheon for the Boy Scout Foundation. At Mr. Roosevelt's left is Barron Collier, car card advertising tycoon and real estate speculator who last month got a three-month moratorium on his $17,000,000 debts, under the Hoover bankruptcy law.-ED. As an olrltime consistent reader of TIME I appeal to you for some information to satisfy my curiosity. Hearst's "Washington...
Last week in Tampa, Fla. Barron Gift Collier,* famed organizer of car card advertising, virtually declared himself bankrupt. He did not use the exact word. What he said was that he could not pay all his debts immediately and wanted a moratorium. He thus became first U. S. tycoon to take advantage of the new bankruptcy law which President Hoover signed the day before he left office...
...Barron Collier's procedure under the law was to submit a list of his liabilities and his assets to a Federal judge and ask for a meeting with his creditors. He owed $9,000,000 to his own companies and $4,500,000 to banks and other creditors. He valued his assets at $37,000,000. When the creditors meet, a majority of them may decide 1) to settle privately with Mr. Collier at so much on the dollar; 2) to try to collect in full by granting an extension of time or 3) to force Mr. Collier into...