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...either forgotten or it does not want to remember the infantry of our economic army. These unhappy times call for plans . . . that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid. . . . No nation can long endure half bankrupt. . . . One of the essential parts of a national program of restoration must be to restore purchasing power to the farming half of the country. . . . The $2,000,000,000 fund which President Hoover and the Congress have put at the disposal...
...Trusts In 1928 Mr. Insull, alarmed by the buying of his securities by other interests, decided to insure permanency for his policies and management. This is accomplished now by Corporation Securities Co. and Insull Utility Investments, Inc. both large investors in his group and at the top of the pyramid. Corporation Securities is controlled by three trustees, Mr. Insull, his son Samuel Insull Jr. and Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co. The two companies have bank loans of around 80 millions scarcely covered by the present market value of their holdings. Notes of Insull Utility Investments sold at around...
...have stripped the Insulls of Chicago's respect. Their trouble was purely financial. No ice, heat, light or traction service would be interrupted by the intricate figuring at the Manhattan meeting. Criticisms voiced last week were directed against the utility holding company as a financial device rather than against Pyramid Builder Insull himself...
...Jefferson Day dinner, voiced an opinion which has recently depressed the silent Democratic leaders. Aroused by Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio address of last Thursday, Mr. Smith branded its utterances as a demagogic appeal to the passions of the "little fellow at the bottom of the economic pyramid." Casting aside his role of inactive candidate, he promises irreconcilable opposition to any man who attempts to utilize dangerous class prejudice as a means to nomination...
...sisters, brothers. His secretive methods make the estate a question mark. "I don't know how much money I have," this long-nosed Swede often said, "and I don't care! What difference does money make?" Since he was said to control the billion-dollar Kreuger & Toll pyramid with slightly over $250,000 key securities, Titan Kreuger's contempt for personal pelf was natural. His pocketbook was always quite lean, but other men seemed always eager to pay the taxi driver...