' Invention, Investment, and Insurance'
T. H. MARSHALL
Today we insure against everything and invest our savings as a matter of course. But Mr. Marshall is to take listeners back to the days when the country was released from the restraints of the Commonwealth, and bright clothes and pleasure were the things to live for; when bubble companies sprang up in the night and promised to turn this world into a land of fairy god-mothers.
Credit was the fairy wand and speculation became the craze. Shares were bought and sold in coffee houses, and everybody lost his head. Mr. Marshall will describe the fever of it all and the ruin involved eventually in the bursting of the South Sea Bubble-which burst all the other bubbles and brought people back to facts.