Ocupation: Economist
Life: October 15, 1908 - April 29, 2006
Birthday: October 15
Death: April 29
Clerks in downtown hotels were said to be asking guests whether they wished the room for sleeping or jumping. Two men jumped hand-in-hand from a high window in the Ritz. They had a joint account.
source: John Kenneth Galbraith (1980). “The Great Crash 1929”
topic: Sleep, Men, Jumping, Ritz