Word: lien
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newport a curb was put, temporarily at least, by Countess Dorothy Filipponi, widow of Ambassador Child. Claiming that she had an equity in The Castle, which she said Mrs. Kaufman obtained in default of a loan, the Countess said she had filed a lien, which must be settled before the property can change hands. Declining to comment upon the lien, Mrs. Kaufman arose from her bed, journeyed to New York, spent an evening with Father Divine and his angels, declared afterward that she had conveyed her property to him. Father Divine announced he would take a boatload of his followers...
...Fellow members of the Bohemian Club, august sanctuary of San Francisco tradition, most of them shared a mellow view of architecture and were damned if they would kill themselves advancing the modern cause in new materials and organic form. New York City's 1939 Fair already had a lien on the World of Tomorrow. Chairman Kelham and crew therefore plumped for a pleasuredom on "Treasure Island," an imaginative. quasi-Oriental "Never-Never Land...
Devised by the Wall Street house of John J. Bergen & Co., Ltd., the new issue is composed of $4,000,000 in 5% debenture shares to be sold at $25 each. Convertible into stock at fixed intervals, the debentures carry no lien but Sunray Oil covenants not to create any mortgage, pledge or lien upon its shares unless the new debenture shares are equally secured. In having no fixed maturity, the new issue is like a consol or certain British "debenture shares." Where the new issue is unique is in Sunray's contract to set aside a sinking fund...
...this point Hemingway, resuming his job of war correspondent, sailed for Spain. Two days later, with his $1,000 option check in the mail, Parker died. Because no contracts had actually been executed, Parker's heirs had no lien on the script, and it started on its travels all over again. With Hemingway's representative, Captain Rollin Dart-who had met Hemingway in Spain while an officer in the Loyalist Army-in charge of the script, it was wanted by the Theatre Guild, rumored sold to Gilbert Miller, to Jock Whitney. No rumor held water long. Last week...
...Speeding military trucks added to the confusion, running down soldiers and refugees who did not step aside in time. I saw a munitions truck explode near me and watched an armored car burn. At Fengyang a red-eyed, swollen-lipped figure hailed me. He was General Sun Lien-chung, Commander of the 26th Battalion. He stood disconsolately outside the gate of the city and remarked: 'Things are upside down...