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Like all conventioneers, the Guildmen enjoyed their chance to cheer popular sentiments. Lively, liberal little Lawyer Morris Ernst, the Guild's shrewd Manhattan counselor, drew loudest cheers when he cried: "The public has a right to know what the newspaper publisher owns! If the publisher is a trustee of the freedom of the Press, then it is the trustee's first duty to make full disclosures to his beneficiaries...
Time trials lately have shown that the old grads may have something to cheer about at New London within a couple of weeks. The crew seems to be swinging into form that has been promised all year but on which they have so far failed to capitalize...
...better your future will be." Its symbol: a black owl with the words BE WISE emblazoned on its breast. About $200,000 was spent in advertising to make U. S. citizens worry about death or old age, and thousands of insurance men gathered in hundreds of groups to cheer for the law of probabilities, foundation of all insurance...
They also could, and did, cheer for life insurance's Depression record. During six Depression years U. S. life companies paid out $18,000,000,000 to policy holders and beneficiaries. Total assets of U. S. life companies increased 36% from $17,482,000,000 at the end of 1929 to $23,828,000,000 at the end of 1935. Some 63,000,000 U. S. policyholders own more than $100,000,000,000 worth of insurance, which is about 70% of the world total. Only a few relatively small companies failed in the six lean years. Even...
...Ride of the Valkyries ended the program, brought the audience to its feet, too moved at first to cheer the conductor as he turned from the players, looking suddenly tired. In that tense moment a news cameraman popped up at the footlights, exploded a flashlight directly in the Maestro's face. Toscanini fled to the wings. Out leaped Bruno Zirato, the Philharmonic's assistant manager, to seize the photographer by the scruff, hustle him out to the lobby where detectives and doormen de prived him of his camera and the plate he had used...