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...School graduate Kenneth L. Bresler, author of The Witch Trial Trail of Boston and the Harvard Witch Walk, the alumni made stops at houses named for Harvard men involved in the witch trials, as well as other sites in Cambridge including the old burial ground on the corner of Garden...
...Bresler's book, which served as the basis of the tour, describes the impact of the Salem witch trials on Boston and Harvard College and includes two self-guided tours similar to the Freedom Trail...
...witch trials are among the most famous trials ever," Bresler said. "I started to read about the trials and realized how the witchcraft hysteria had engulfed Harvard...
...disappeared. The scandal led to the failure of Cincinnati's Home State Savings Bank, which had invested as much as $150 million in E.S.M. That in turn sparked a run on savings institutions across Ohio. A month after the E.S.M. fiasco came the collapse of several divisions of Bevill, Bresler & Schulman, a New Jersey firm that traded heavily in Government securities. Customers suffered losses of at least $198 million, and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged the company with fraud...
...beating in money markets. Reason: fear that the Federal Reserve would be forced to loosen its grip on the money supply and lower interest rates to protect the U.S. banking system. Last week's dollar slide was due in part to worries stemming from the bankruptcy of Bevill, Bresler & Shulman Asset Management, a small New Jersey investment firm dealing in Government securities. The Federal Reserve, though, has given no signs of moving to a much looser monetary policy...