Word: colliere
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...America, the value of which has been thoroughly demonstrated by actual use during the preceding year." To the person or institution responsible for the achievement goes a bronze figure of a male rising from a sphere, head held high, right hand grasping a soaring pigeon. It is the Collier Trophy, established 1911 by the late Robert Joseph Collier, son of old Publisher P. F. Collier of Collier's Weekly. Besides being editor of Collier's after the Spanish-American War, Son Robert was an early aeronaut, a director in 1909 of Wright Airplane Co., president...
...builder of bombers, amphibians, transports in his own right. Builder Martin has not piloted a plane for some 15 years. He dresses nobbily. lives in Washington with his mother. Mrs. Minta Martin, his constant companion, who was to be on hand this week when President Roosevelt formally presents the Collier trophy...
...Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby, W. A. Smith, T. W. Steptoe, R. N. Svoboda, E. O. Tilton, J. M. Timken, P. A. Unger, G. E. Wesner, H. H. Wilder, J. A. Wilhelm, T. W. Wills, Collier Wright, R. S. Young...