ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 
MANY friends, interested in the causes of the 
stock market crash and problems arising therefrom, 
have done me the favor of reading a mimeographed 
draft of this book. I am indebted to them for their 
many helpful suggestions. Their names, alphabet- 
ized, follow: Luther Blake, Lindsay Bradford, 
Charles W. Colby, W. J. Couper, Hunt T. Dickin- 
son, Gayer G. Dominick, Allen Dulles, Lionel D. 
Edie, George W. Fraker, Henry J. Fuller, Edward 
H. Green, K. G. Karsten, Fred I. Kent, Leonard 
Kuvin, J. W. Laird, E. P. Maynard, Richard S. 
Maynard, J. Edward Meeker, Royal Meeker, J. A. 
Moffitt, George K. Morrow, George B. Roberts, 
George E. Roberts, Leland Rex Robinson, Malcolm 
C. Rorty, Melvin Sawin, Laurence H. Sloan, Carl 
Snyder, Charles T. Treadway, B. L. Winchell and 
B. L. Winchell, Jr. 
I wish especially to acknowledge the constructive 
work of H. Bruce Brougham, who has collaborated 
with me in the writing of this book.