Word: receiverships
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...have been supremely, smugly satisfied. The old Auditorium, which President Benjamin Harrison and Adelina Patti helped dedicate 43 years ago, used to be headquarters for Chicago's social and operatic splendor. Four months after Samuel Insull opened his $20,000,000 skyscraper opera house, the Auditorium went into receivership, grew dingier & dingier while its longtime patrons went to the new plush-lined theatre on Wacker Drive. Last week the Insull House was dark and the Auditorium, refurbished at a cost of $125,000, was open again. The Chicago Bohemians' Club sponsored last week's gala Auditorium concert...
Last week the international union acted by removing pudgy, hawk-nosed Sam Kaplan as boss of Local 306. The removal came while Kaplan was defending himself and his union rule in Manhattan Supreme Court on a receivership-and-damage suit filed by four members of Local 306. During the trial the judge discovered that Defendant Kaplan and two bodyguards were armed with pearl-handled revolvers, wrathfully ordered them to check their weapons with the court clerk. Witness after witness at the trial testified that Kaplan's men had "socked" them for speaking out at union meetings, had even threatened...
...kill the idea of water transportation. Men crucified Christ once but his idea lives on. . . . The real trouble with the railroads is the aftermath of frenzied financing and excessive overcapitalization and not bus, truck, airplane, pipeline or waterway competition. Our corporation, unlike the railroads, has passed through no receivership, floated no bond issues, paid no princely salaries. I could spit out the window and retire and my retirement pay for life as a major general would be only $2,250 a year less than I'm getting now. I'll stake my honor, reputation and life that...
...Salle Hotel, also controlled Illinois Life Insurance Co., a concern with $150,000,000 in policies outstanding, half of them in its home state. Legally, if unwisely, Illinois Life bought $11,000,000 worth of mortgages and securities in the two hotels, both of which have passed into receivership...
...unpaid butter & egg bill of $1,130 forced into receivership Manhattan's Friars Club, famed theatrical organization founded in 1904 by Playwright Channing Pollock and ten other pressagents, headed almost continuously since 1912 by George Michael Cohan...