Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...books out on the desk, began casting up his accounts. He owed his landlord $700 in back rent. His bill at the grocers was $200. Other stores about town had claims of $600 on him for household furnishings, clothes, books, jewelry. Against him was pending a $1,000 deficiency judgment because his home, on which he had a $5,000 mortgage, brought only $4,000 at forced sale. A friend held his unsecured note for $500. That made his total indebtedness $3,000 and his creditors were clamoring for full and immediate payments...
...association of Grand Rapids furniture with gaudiness and lack of taste reflects wrongfully upon the standing of the product in industry and indicts the judgment of the thousands of American people who regard their Grand Rapids furniture as a cultural enrichment of their homes. Grand Rapids, for more than a half century, has set the furniture styles of this country...
...action. Breezy, baldish, bespectacled Bill Comstock has long headed the State Democratic organization. His election last autumn was his fourth run for Governor. Since the Depression he has lost his personal fortune, made in lumber; his salary ($5,000 reduced voluntarily to $4,000) was garnisheed under an old judgment last fortnight...
...friend Mabel Dodge. Made an artist of importance of his lawyer, banker, publisher friend Edward Bruce. Became the unofficial lord of the little Italian hilltown of Anticoli. In Anticoli he lives in a 48-room castle, spends most of his time and does most of his work, sitting in judgment on the peasants who bring him offerings of fruit and flowers...
Nevertheless, as long as Harvard debating teams continue to debate before relatively large audiences here and elsewhere, Harvard will be judged by the quality of the debate. In order that such judgment may be to the advantage of the University, everything possible should be done to rescue the activity from the limbo into which it has fallen. Help can come to some extent from the college administration, but unless it is accompanied by an abrupt revival of undergraduate interest, it will not save the Debating Council from being, at best, ineffectual...