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Tongko, speaking on Filipino-American relations, pointed to the fact that while the U.S. has given more aid to countries traditionally less friendly, even former enemies, it has made an economic puppet of the Philippines. Rather than appear as debtor, his country has now been trying to collect the "omnibus claims against the U.S., both moral and legal, running back...
...medical treatment of the insane, Parkman had inherited a large amount of money, some of which he lent to a colleague, Dr. John White Webster. A professor at the Medical School for a quarter-century, Webster had luxurious tastes beyond his means. Parkman became furious with his debtor when he discovered that both another creditor and himself had been given the same bill of sale as security. He pursued Webster relentlessly and finally made an appointment to see the latter at his laboratory to collect the debt...
Washington was host this week to a vitally important meeting of creditors. Delegates from the U.S., Britain, West Germany, Canada and Japan gathered in a high-ceilinged conference room at World Bank headquarters to decide what they could do about Debtor India. It was a billion-dollar question...
...Luft, whom she is suing for divorce, at expensive Manhattan night spots. Then came the law. After she failed to appear at a hearing on an $8,673 tax bill, New York State agents arrested her, took custody of her jewels and costumes (worth an estimated $55,000) because Debtor Garland could not raise the cash for a $10,000 bond...
...cured himself of hiccups by putting a candle to his nightgown: "enveloped in flames," he was soon too badly burned to burp. Despite his Spartan attire, Mytton "had a hundred and fifty-two pairs of trousers," spent half a million pounds in 15 years, died of d.t.s in a debtor's prison...