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...support prices. But at a noonday meeting, they concluded that they could not stop the declines. In fact, one of the bankers, Albert Wiggin of Chase Bank, in a personal account had quietly sold the market short. The Dow would ultimately fall 89%--12% the day of the crash--ushering in the Great Depression.--By Daniel Kadlec
...heard a few days before about the assassination of Ernst vom Rath, an official at the German embassy in Paris, killed by a Polish Jew, and it was a very bad omen. Everything went fine until about 2:30 in the morning, when we were awakened by a big crash. I got up and didn't know what might have happened. I lived in a large dormitory room with two friends. I thought that it was something terrible and that we should be ready to meet the emergency. We packed our valises in case we needed to leave. We heard...
...America's first painter--pop star, the drunken angel of an emerging hipster culture in search of new routes to those old American goals, the instinctive and the transcendent. Though the role unnerved him, it was secured forever in 1956, when he died, like James Dean, in a car crash. But by that time the energies he had released were in motion everywhere. The painter Willem de Kooning said it best: "He broke the ice." True enough, but it broke him too. --By Richard Lacayo
...we’re not even talking about the sports in which people actually hit each other. This is crew, in which the most violent event is, in theory, Crash B’s, and that’s only because of the name of the meet. It’s breezing up and down the (mostly) tranquil Charles River. It’s the sound of a diminutive but dedicated leader yelling “stroke” repeatedly as geese fly by and joggers pause to take in the idyllic scene...
...blocking the bullets. "I got shot and none of them did, but their hearts were in the right place. I've heard that argument that men will risk their lives to protect a woman. I have to point out that our two Apaches did not loiter over our crash to protect me. They did the only reasonable logical thing and left...