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...speech helped to buck up Republican campaign morale. Republican editors talked of a turn in the tide. But while President Hoover was speaking at Des Moines two Democrats, by shaking hands at Albany, stole the next morning's headlines. Grain prices broke to the season's low while the stockmarket suffered the sharpest decline in nearly a year...
...profitable business for the strong companies. Large reserves and ultra-conservative investment policies enabled U. S. life companies to increase their total payments to beneficiaries and policyholders $638,000,000 from 1929 to 1931. Loans to policyholders have leaped more than $1,000,000,000 since the 1929 stockmarket crash, reaching a total of $2,827,000,000 for the 44 companies reporting May 31. Many a U. S. citizen found that his savings for a rainy day had been all washed away except his insurance, a fact which insurance men think will sell more & more insurance when private incomes...
Throughout the nation last week ran a little thrill of economic hope. It was picked up by an eager Press, already excited by a stockmarket rally (see p. 27). Some headlines of the week...
Shortly after the 1929 stockmarket crash. Travelers received a similar threat, but the policy holder bearded the company in its Hartford home office. Officials pointed out that he was using extortion. He did not kill himself until two years later...
Pleasing to Wall Street was the fact that the stockmarket's rise came despite the fact that the short interest as of May 31 was the smallest reported since the Exchange began giving out figures?2,140,000 shares against 2,758,000 May 2 last...