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Effects. The city was threatened with the closing of schools where even unpaid teachers could not work without heat. Provision merchants talked of cutting off the supply of food to the county's charitable institutions unless back bills were paid. Civil employes drew on their small savings, borrowed on their property, went to moneylenders for cash at 10% interest per month. The police department announced that it would take no steps to compel its men to repay such usurers. City and county paymasters pondered the idea of paying off employes with the tax warrants, which the banks would cash only...
...past one of the loudest complainants has been Senator James Couzens of Michigan. This year's list carries a tax refund of $989,883 for him. No explanations were necessary because, as everyone knows, the U. S. had sued Senator Couzens for $10,000,000 as unpaid taxes on his profits from the sale of his Ford Motor Co. stock, had not only lost its case but had been ordered to return to the Senator $989,883 in taxes he had already paid...
Silent Howls. Soon after the Hoover of Mexico was elected he received an invitation to visit the U. S. from Thomas W. Lament, Chairman of the International Committee of Bankers concerned with Mexico's unpaid foreign debt. At that time Señor Ortiz Rubio told correspondents he had wired Mr. Lament: "In case I am able to accept your invitation I will advise you in ample time." But, when he left Mexico, the President-Elect said nothing about the invitation, declared that he was going for his health to Johns Hopkins, and has denied repeatedly that...
...receivers (Manhattan's Irving Trust Co., appointed by Judge Alfred C. Coxe). The petitioners were W. D. Byrnes, Inc., a Manhattan trucking concern, who in presenting a bill for $7,000, declared that the company's property was valued at $3,689,000. that its current and unpaid liabilities were $1,200,000, that its property assets could not be immediately realized without great sacrifice...
...musical city in the U. S., but its recent operatic ventures have done little to support the claim. Last spring a so-called National Opera Company came into existence there, died in a week. Last month a Cosmopolitan Opera Company closed its run abruptly because singers refused to sing unpaid...