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Article: The Jumpers of '29; When the Market Crashed, Who Headed for the Windows?
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 25, 1987
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AS THE CANYONS of Wall Street echo again with an avalanche of
sliding stocks a la 1929, can the thud of falling bodies be far
behind? Certainly one enduring image of the Crash, by now almost a
part of the national folklore, is that of ruined financiers pitching
themselves out windows and off buildings and bridges.
Will Rogers happened to be in New York on "Black Thursday," Oct.
24, 1929. In his nationally syndicated newspaper column for that
day, he wrote: "When Wall Street took that tail spin, you had to
stand in line to get a window to jump out of, and speculators were
selling space for bodies in the East River." The New York
correspondent for one of London's sensationalist tabloids ...
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