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Director of Registration Baldwin Bane came from the Federal Trade Commission, is known as a protegé of Senator Carter Glass. He it is who issues SEC's ''stop-orders," which amount to injunctions shuting off the output of new securities. Since the Securities Act of 1933 was signed, he has passed 1,124 issues, stopped...
...elaborate regulations. Promotions were rapid and salaries high but Allied got a reputation for killing its executives. To find the right man for a key job, Mr. Weber would make and break half a dozen officers in quick succession. Corporate camaraderie was discouraged-thereby discouraging corporate politics, a bane of big business. Allied officials did not even lunch together. But, from general headquarters right down through the 70-odd plants scattered the length & breadth of the land, the whole Allied personnel had one thing in common: Fear. Some employes hesitated to take vacations lest other men would have their jobs...
...week, the lighter Cambridge crew paddled nonchalantly to their boathouse. It took Oxford's portly, tired oarsmen ten minutes to find strength enough to follow. Said G. M. Nickals, an Oxford Blue in the winning boat of 1923: "They reverted to all the faults which have been the bane of Oxford rowing for ten years...
...good. But what does the CRIMSON offer as a solution for the unfortunate state of affairs? The bane of the system, evidently, is the examination, "the blighting influence" of which "atrophies all attempts to introduce training beyond the strict limits of requirements." But apparently the comprehensive English examination as conducted under the so-called. New Plan affords "a reliable indication of success at college." Would it not be ample, the Harvard paper asks, for a university to require that each student take the scholastic aptitude test and the comprehensive English examination, and peruse the applicant's school record...
...would get new common, share for share, and each share of Class B would be exchanged for one-half a share of new common. By assigning the new common a par value of only $5, Mr. Lee would also create sufficient surplus to make his big write-down. Mr. Bane's ruling did not affect Mr. Lee's plans but it provided very bad publicity...