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   Thomas Fortune Ryan and his Family   

Page entitled : Thomas F. Ryan and Equitable Life Assurance

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How Thomas Fortune Ryan clinched the deal with James Hazen Hyde to buy control of the Equitable Life Assurance and of the fraudulent use of life insurance funds

Extract :
 the poorest earnings ratios were those of the biggest companies, the Equitable (Harriman-Ryan), the New York Life (J.P. Morgan & Co) and the Rockefeller controlled Mutual Life Insurance Co, it was easily concluded that the worst abuses were done by the very powers who controlled Wall Street.

Thomas Fortune Ryan was now well entrenched among these powers. Although it exposed the facts, the Hughes investigation did little to change the situation in the life insurance sector.
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