THE GREAT DEPRESSION The Coming Economic Earthquake By Larry Burkett Moody Press - Chicago - 1991 Chapter 2, pages 19-29 The following is a narrated description of the events that took place the week of October 24-30, 1929. The narration is my creation; the events are historical fact.Due to one of those quirks of fate, the president of the New York Stock Exchange, Edward Simmons, was in Hawaii on his honeymoon the last week of October 1929. His vice president, Richard Whitney, was in charge. Whitney had a long history as a habitual gambler and was deeply indebted to the...