Word: debtors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...From nine of her War debtors the U. S. one day last week received a semi-annual installment of $98,657,973. Two days later the President signed the Mellon-Berenger agreement by which a tenth debtor, France, will pay $6,847,674,104 in 62 years...
When, 28 years ago, Simon I. Patiño was a bill collector for a Bolivian general store, he accepted from a debtor certain mountain lands instead of $250. The store discharged him after making him pay $250 in cash. Impoverished, he went to see the land, dug, discovered tin. Today he heads the Patiño Mines and Enterprises Consolidated, is one of the world's richest men, with a personal income exceeding that of the Bolivian Government. Although as Ambassador to France Patiño divides his time between Paris and his Biarritz castle, he is still...
...third and final special article, written by Mr. Rogge, discusses "The Differences in the Priority of the United States in Bankruptcy and Equity Receiverships." This points out the curious fact that it is of substantial value to the United States that assets of an insolvent debtor should be distributed in an equity receivership rather than in bankruptcy. To other creditors, on the other hand, it is advantageous that it should be done in bankruptcy. The article suggests a brief statute by which the differences could be eradicated...
...operetta" of this type owes a debt to Gilbert and Sullivan. The present composer, Mr. Maurice Jacquet, puts his opus in that debtor class though, no doubt, unintentionally. Traces of those British gentlemen and of Johann Strauss abound. But in spite of these resemblances, the songs have a freshness and a catchy quality not to be credited most other imitators...
Hearst v. The Senate. Had William Randolph Hearst, bold son of a onetime Senator,* tried to make the U. S. Senate his debtor, his newsboy or his strong-arm man? The special committee under Senator Reed of Pennsylvania (TIME, Dec. 19) continued finding out. First of all it examined Publisher Hearst to learn how, when & where he had obtained pseudo-official Mexican documents indicating that $1,215,000 was to have been paid to four U. S. Senators, with Mexican President Calles' halfbrother, Mexican Consul General Arturo M. Elias of Manhattan, and Lawyer Dudley Field Malone of Manhattan...