The Impersonal Life

by Joseph Sieber Benner

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-====== The Inner Life 1933 ====== +====== The Inner Life ====== 
-== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE ==+== THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MARCH 1933 ==
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 The following morning as he stepped from his car in front of his office in the Fourth Avenue Building he heard the newsboys calling “Extra,” and he stopped to buy a Post Intelligencer before entering the building. The large headlines seemed fairly to scream the words, “Market Crashes—Stocks Falling Fast!” When he reached his desk he hurriedly called his broker, only to learn the words in the headlines were true—his holdings were going down in value rapidly. The following morning as he stepped from his car in front of his office in the Fourth Avenue Building he heard the newsboys calling “Extra,” and he stopped to buy a Post Intelligencer before entering the building. The large headlines seemed fairly to scream the words, “Market Crashes—Stocks Falling Fast!” When he reached his desk he hurriedly called his broker, only to learn the words in the headlines were true—his holdings were going down in value rapidly.
  
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 Unable either to eat or sleep that night, he left his home early the next morning for the downtown district, where he learned stocks were continuing to fall in value; and at the end of three days when the bottom had been reached, he knew all his savings of a lifetime had been swept away. Summoning what remaining courage he had, he sought his wife and tried to allay her fears with the assurance that even though his investments were now worthless, they still had their home. But he had forgotten for the moment Unable either to eat or sleep that night, he left his home early the next morning for the downtown district, where he learned stocks were continuing to fall in value; and at the end of three days when the bottom had been reached, he knew all his savings of a lifetime had been swept away. Summoning what remaining courage he had, he sought his wife and tried to allay her fears with the assurance that even though his investments were now worthless, they still had their home. But he had forgotten for the moment
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