Your Money's Worth Credit's Pitfalls Exposed
Sylvia Porter's column warns borrowers about credit traps including debt pooling, sewer service, inconvenient venue, confession of judgment and harassment. It details how unscrupulous collectors misuse notices, venue shifts, and threats to coerce payments, with guidance to seek legal help and defend rights.
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Sylvia Porter
Doubleday & Co, Inc
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Almanac notes key dates and Baruch birth
The Aug 19 Almanac lists Bernard Baruch’s birth in 1870 and notable events from 1915 1955 1960 and 1974. It includes a cautionary note about debt harassment, repossession practices and a consumer law quirk known as holder in due course with examples of how contracts can transfer to lenders.
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Rudolf Abel
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Nashville film sparks sharp debate on American culture
Pauline Kael and Judith Crist praise Nashville for capturing America’s violence and malaise while The New York Times’ Tom Wicker lampoons its excesses. George Will calls Nashville a microcosm of country music and national life, a provocative Ulysses of urban vitality and political sham.
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Pauline Kael
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Judith Crist
New York Magazine
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Wicker
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Robert Altman
Ten
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Jeb Magruder
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Newsweek
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Speaking Dollar Wise ESOT Opportunity
Employers and employees are urged to study ESOT as a potential money maker. It promises cheaper working capital, higher productivity, and increased profits for firms while offering workers a cost free path to stock in their company, potentially valuable later.
Where We Stand on Energy Costs and ESOTs
A reader letter urges reform of energy pricing and transmission losses in the USA with non coercive market mechanisms and penalty funds for leakages. It also explains employee stock ownership trusts ESOTs as tax efficient capital tools and notes IRS approval is required.
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USA
National Geographic
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Dreaming Spot Tree Inspires Sophia in New Subdivision
In a new mini community a lone climbing tree remains after developers clear the rest. Eight year old Sophia calls it her Walden Pond and spends hours in its crook or hanging from its limb dreaming about life. A few days ago she came home in tears.
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Jim Fiebig
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Walden Pond
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