Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Life insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 1278
Book Description
Unique Manual-digest of American Life Insurance
Author: Policyholders Digest of American Life Insurance
Author: Caldwell and Company
Author: John Berry McFerrinPublisher: Vanderbilt University Press
ISBN: 0826504744
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is the fascinating, detailed account of the rise and fall of the largest banking house ever before established in the South, whose financial misfeasance during the prosperous twenties led to its eventual collapse and brought ruin to numerous innocent investors. Caldwell and Company was founded in Nashville in 1917 by Rogers Caldwell, the son of a leading local banker and businessman. Beginning as a small underwriter and distributor of Southern municipal bonds, the firm soon branched out into real estate bonds and industrial securities as well. Control of important banks in Tennessee and Arkansas was acquired; newspapers, and even Nashville's professional baseball team, came under the firm’s ownership. Caldwell and Company was, truly, a pioneer conglomerate. Caldwell and Company also ventured into the realm of politics, supporting certain politicians (notably Colonel Luke Lea) with questionable benefits accruing to the firm, including substantial state deposits in Caldwells Bank of Tennessee. In November 1930 the firm went into receivership. Unethical practices, including overextension in the acquisition of banks, insurance companies, and other business, had already strain Caldwell and Company’s assets. With the 1929 collapse of stock prices. Rogers Caldwell could not meet the company’s obligations, and he began to squeeze all available cash from the various controlled firms. He also negotiated a merger between Caldwell and Company and Banco-Kentucky Company of Louisville—a transaction which must stand as one of the strangest deals in the annals of American business. Even the aforementioned State of Tennessee deposits, which helped float his empire for a while, could not prevent its collapse—a collapse which resulted in a multi-million dollar loss to Tennessee’s Treasury, public hysteria, and clamor for the impeachment of the Governor of Tennessee. Originally Published in 1939, this edition includes a new introduction in which the author comments on the long-run implications of the Caldwell episode and reports the outcome of legal actions, both civil and criminal, still pending at the time the book was first published.
Standard of Living
Author: Patrick GrayPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031064771
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 477
Book Description
This anthology honors the life and work of American economist John E. Murray, whose work on the evolution of the standard of living spanned multiple disciplines. Publishing extensively in the areas of the history of healthcare and health insurance, labor markets, religion, and family-related issues from education to orphanages, fertility, and marriage, Murray was much more than an economic historian and his influence can be felt across the wider scholarly community. Written by Murray’s academic collaborators, mentors, and mentees, this collection of essays covers topics such as the effect of the 1918 influenza pandemic on U.S. life insurance holdings, the relationship between rapid economic growth and type 2 diabetes, and the economics of the early church. This volume will be of use to scholars and students interested in economic history, cliometrics, labor economics, and American and European history, as well as the history of religion.
Monthly Bulletin of the Public Library of the District of Columbia
Author: District of Columbia. Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
The American Economic Review
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
Includes papers and proceedings of the annual meeting of the American Economic Association. Covers all areas of economic research.
Flitcraft Life Insurance Manual
Author: Catalogue of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1470
Book Description
Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2934
Book Description