Word: lifes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week Bill Douglas declared that at the end of 1937 there were 308 legal reserve companies with aggregate assets of $26,249,049,219. The biggest three companies in 1906 had some half billion dollars in assets apiece then; now they have more than a billion apiece. And Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., which in 1906 had only $176,000,000, today has the fabulous total of $4,700,000,000, making it, next to American Telephone & Telegraph, the biggest company in the world. Said Bill Douglas: "This tremendous growth is itself cause for inquiry...
...before leading Metropolitan's self-made Chairman Frederick H. Ecker onto the floor, Bill Douglas reassured the 64,000,000 people in the U. S. with life insurance policies (45% of them with Metropolitan). Said he: "No policyholder need have any concern that any fact brought out in this inquiry will in any way jeopardize the protection which he counts upon...
...problems of contemporary life is whether the movies should help people to solve, or forget, contemporary problems. Most Hollywood producers favor forgetfulness. Consequently, films which are even remotely concerned with social problems are rarities. Last week's big cinema news was the simultaneous opening of two such pictures...
...animals or that war is glorious, but only for having an untidy left margin or the word colonies mis spelled. At military camp one of his pupils is killed, and the causes and consequences of that death are grave indeed. But death, concludes the author, is better than life in such a world. When he reads about death in the papers, his mind cries out, "Too few are dead, too few." He wishes he could...
...perhaps the best man who ever lived, voluntarily submitted to death at the hands of an imperfect government rather than save his life by breaking the laws which had been established by consent." Called the same day to the Chancellorship of the Fascist-threatened Republic, he draws up a sound economic program, a speech to men of good will...