CoL49 Chapter 4

[Mark Kohut]

The implication, I think, in the book is that his estate is mucho wealthy,
so to speak.

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 8:19 AM Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 4:36 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yes!  BUT!  Are any of these “speculations” suggested anywhere in the
> text?
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> - it’s really just one speculation: that the estate was broke. The other
> ideas followed from that.
>
> I mentioned it because it’s an intriguing possibility which never occurred
> to me before.
>
> It’s suggested by Metzger’s grouchiness, by his quitting, by their selling
> Pierce’s beloved stamp collection, and by no mention of beneficiaries - the
> debts have to be covered first & if a shortfall were obvious, it wouldn’t
> matter who they were.
>
> Then also the many different types of holdings suggest a business
> conglomerate, a phenomenon on the upsurge in 1964 but already headed toward
> a downturn later in the ‘60s - a well-informed author would’ve been aware
> of vulnerabilities in a conglomerate structure (and possibly objectionable
> things about them from ethical points of view)
>
>
> https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/11/the-forgotten-history-of-how-1960s-conglomerates-derailed-the-american-dream/
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