Word: risked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...veterans paid good American dollars worth 100? for your war risk insurance. If we have inflation and wallpaper money becomes the currency of the land that $10,000 policy of yours will buy about $4,000 worth of stuff. One disabled veteran said to me the other day: 'Don't let the Legion fail to oppose Inflation. For God's sake let us hold on to what little we're getting...
...high prices, for most of the items could be duplicated by reliable 'leggers at the same figures, but the fact that the advertisement, first of its kind in 16 years, was in direct violation of the Volstead Act. Were not Park & Tilford and the newspapers running the risk of fine and imprisonment...
...Harry M. Dunning, became Candidate McKee's campaign manager. Observers believed that the President's hand had been forced after prognathous Mayor O'Brien had made such an unimpressive showing in the primaries which nominated him to succeed himself a week before. Rather than take the risk of the Democracy's losing the Nation's No. 1 city to a Republican-led Fusion body, the President, through a Farley-Flynn-McKee finesse, was prepared to take the double hazard of lending his tacit support in a local political fight, thus jeopardizing his national prestige...
...Life insurance underwriters meeting in Chicago heard sharp criticism, of the practice of underwriting huge policies (called "jumbos") of $1,000,000 or more. Vice President John Melvin Laird of Connecticut General Life observed that responsible companies have grown shy of underwriting jumbos, that they are a dangerous risk even in normal times. Said he: "Statistics show that the death rate on this type was excessive on issues of the 'boom' decade carried to the anniversary of 1930. The experience includes a period of generally favorable mortality and excludes practically all the Depression. Nevertheless the mortality on persons...
Probably the most interesting piece in this collection is the Wooden Virgin of Tahull. This is an example of woodcarving rarely seen. It was taken from the country only at great risk to the owners, and is a highly prized possession...