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...Because of indications that Mrs. Stanford lived several hours after the crash, Aviatrix Ruth Nichols, Quaker, pacifist, obtained a pistol permit in Westchester County, N. Y. so that she might signal for help in case of a forced landing in a wilderness...
...City Bank & Trust Co. Other failures of the fortnight included Bank of Westerville, Ohio (with Anti-Saloon League funds); First National Bank of Gary, Ind. (leaving but one bank there, secure with U. S. Steel Corp. backing). In South Carolina there was a wave of failures following the crash of Peoples State Bank with $24,443,000 in deposits, 43 branches. Banks in such communities as Bishopville, Travelers Rest, Florence, failed to open. Puzzling to many a citizen was why the stream of banking failures continued in spite of National Credit Corp., the much-publicized, half-billion-dollar financed lifeline...
...fireman will die because he did not report the engineer drunk, a conductor because he was responsible for the conduct of the train crew, a stationmaster and train despatcher because they did not hold the train at the station but let it pass through and crash into another train. Among lives lost in the wreck was that of the drunken engineer...
Focus of the Senators' interest was the Bull Market and the 1929 Crash, with particular reference to parts played therein by banks and the Reserve. Most of the Committee's findings were ancient history to the investor who had lost his shirt. But bankers throughout the land perused the report carefully because they knew it would serve as a working text for bank legislation yet to be framed by the Committee. Buried under piles of financial statistics were these general conclusions...
...Since the Crash, the operation and results of banks' security affiliates have been "on the whole unfavorable...