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...Wells to plunge the Irish deeper than any other nation into the abyss of economic collapse; he takes a malicious joy in attributing the ruin of New York to its jerry-built skyscrapers. Yet these are but minor points--some well taken, withal. Such details must occasionally be wildly wrong; such detail is of utmost necessity to the interest and vividness of the prediction...
...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 insured for $1,000,000 or more was 169% of the normal. Clearly there was something wrong even before the Depression. . . . By 1930 more information had become available and companies were limiting 'personal' insurance to the amount which could be purchased on the ordinary life plan by 20% of the man's income." Lives known to be insured for $1,000,000 or more...
President Lewis' personal triumph at the Shoreham Hotel last week tended to overshadow these old familiar charges. Right or wrong in his past tactics, he had been quick enough, shrewd enough, dogged enough to squeeze the maximum benefits for his men from NRA. In three short months he had jacked U. M. W. out of disintegration and despair, energized it into the greatest single affiliate of the American Federation of Labor. He was the prime embodiment of Labor resurgent under the New Deal. As such he was prepared to stride into the A. F. of L. convention this week...
...President Grau, Captain Bias explained away his insurgence thus: "The trouble is that wherever I go inevitably a crowd gathers about us. About 300 did that last week and with the difficulties of communication added to the fact that none of us seems interested in telling the real truth, wrong news gets out. I want everybody to get behind the Government and help support it for a long time. ... I would rise up against anybody of the type of Machado but I believe he was unique and that nobody will ever appear again who is that...
...embalmed Batrachians; he will concentrate in a science, most often Bio-chemistry, and he will become a doctor at long lost. A certain minority of these nascent physicians, however, will realize too into that the advice they have received and the schedule which has entrapped them is all wrong for their personal needs, and that it need not have been...