Excerpt from Stock Exchange Practices, Vol. 13: Hearings Before the Committee on Banking and Currency, United States Senate, Seventy-Third Congress, Second Session; Alcohol Pools, February 14 to February 20, 1934 The plan was my own undertaking, with the intention of aiding the com pany in its emergency, and in this I had the support of my associates in the company. For their acts in so cooperating I wish to assume full personal responsibility. I, with their help, and through market support, protected the company and its stockholders in a grave emergency, more grave than the emer geney of 1929, when, as has been said, undisclosed market support by companies was not only justified but desirable. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.