Word: caught
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a smart tennis player, Cyrus Eaton had more than once caught the Securities & Exchange Commission flat-footed in its long battle to revoke the underwriting license of his investment house, Otis & Co. SEC charged that Eaton had instigated a suit against Kaiser-Frazer Corp. and then used the suit to get out of underwriting a stock issue for K-F when it seemed that Otis might lose millions on the deal. Eaton neatly handled that hot serve. He sued SEC in the U.S. District Court. It ruled that there was insufficient evidence against Otis. SEC took the case...
...make the trip while it still can. Astaire and Rogers assure any musical of success. When you add to them the comic talents of Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick and the music of Irving Berlin ("top Hat," "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught In the Rain," and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek") it's like insuring the Rock of Gilbraltar against erosion...
Yale University is caught in a mystifying web of "cold war" security. So is Harvard. So is M.I.T. So is the country. What makes Yale different is that Yale is scared--scared right out of its civil liberties. The older faculty men, secure in tenure appointments, are just worried. Certain faculties, notably those of the law and medical schools, are not even worried. But the younger faculty members and the graduate students, especially in the physics department are scared stiff. "We're afraid to open our mouths on any idea left of Wilsonian liberalism," one physics instructor says. Other young...
Spokesmen for the FBI admit that such gratuitous advice to private citizens is not permitted by FBI policy. They have indicated that any agent caught in such an act would be fired if the facts got back to Washington...
Zealot. In Lynn, Mass., Richard Deland, who had been sentenced to jail and then put on probation for breaking into Pennyworth's Clothing Store, was caught by police next day breaking into Pennyworth's Clothing Store...