Word: receivership
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...cities throughout the land. Most important are Frank & Seder's and Rosenbaum's in Pittsburgh, Frank & Seder's in Philadelphia, Bailey's in Cleveland, Lipman, Wolfe's in Portland. In boomtimes the chain's sales amounted to $75,000,000 annually. Early in 1933 the company slipped into receivership and a plan of reorganization was approved by the courts last spring...
...reasons for the high cost of corporate troubles, said Judge Nields, is the belief among attorneys that they are "entitled to greater compensation when employed in receivership or bankruptcy cases than when serving private interests...
Depression pushed Cosden Oil Co. into receivership, and Mrs. Cosden, without an automobile to her name, gamely went to work as an interior decorator. In 1933 Josh Cosden bought in his company at a receiver's sale for $501,000. Again his loyal friends were sure that his luck was due for another spectacular spin...
...circulation is 35,000 less than the Journal's, 56,000 less than the Tribune's. Started 15 years ago as an organ of the Non-Partisan League, the Star was at first rambunctiously radical, has lately grown respectable and New Dealish. It went through a receivership from which it was extricated by the late Albert Burnett Frizzell. Last week the Frizzell estate sold controlling interest in the Star to Gardner Cowles & sons, publishers of the fatly prosperous Des Moines Register & Tribune. Reputed price...
...black, the one-time Brain Truster replied: "Lincoln once sold liquor in his general store, but I think my establishment is much classier." With a $5,000,000 mortgage on the property, Mr. Moley's good friend Vincent Astor year ago threw the St. Regis into receivership (TIME, June 18, 1934), last week bought it at auction...