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should be the same and unalterable for all companies.
The charters of the companies had been drafted in the interest of the management, without much consideration for the rights or advantages of those who were insured.
There were no laws on the statute book which would practically prevent directors of life-insurance companies from doing as they pleased with the immense trust properties in their possession.
After two or three interviews with Elizur Wright the presidents of the companies came to the conclusion that he was exactly the man that they wanted, and they commissioned him to draw up a revised set of tables and rates which could serve them for a uniform standard.
This work occupied him and two of his daughters for a full year, for which he was compensated with the paltry sum of two thousand dollars. The time was fast approaching, however, when Elizur Wright would be in a position to dictate his own terms to the insurance companies.
It was now that the Bird Club, the most distinguished political club of its time, became gradually formed out of the leading elements of the Free-soil party.
At one time this club counted among its members two Senators, three Governors, and a number of Congressmen, and
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