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Salient: the 20-day cooling period that must by law elapse between the registration and sale of any new security. During the 20 days, underwriters and dealers chew their nails, hark nervously for stop orders, sometimes watch a good market turn into a bad one (leaving them holding the bag). When Emmett ("Spike") Connely became president of the Investment Bankers Association last year and declared open war on the Securities Acts, the 20-day clause was his first objective...
...heart beat. My hand shook a little. Suppose that he were one of those sharp, kindly-savage Americans who bark like dogs, sit in their shirt sleeves, curse and swear, chew the damp stubs of cigars." It is, however, only Alfred Noyes. But the novelist's journalistic boss turns up soon enough, steers him around to see the Pope lying in state, coaches him on how to open his articles with a bang...
...TIME IS RIGHT AND I AM WRONG AND SAM JONES WINS, I WILL GO TO NEW YORK, CLIMB A FLAGPOLE ON TIME-LIFE BUILDING, AND AT HIGH NOON ON FEB. 29 I WILL CHEW UP AND EAT ONE COMPLETE ISSUE OF TIME...
...have the ability to meet all kinds of people and keep their confidence at all times. If you don't like the country you're in, just remember that nobody in the country invited you to come there anyhow. ..." Last week Jimmy had his own words to chew on, for he had lost the confidence of Japan's police: Jimmy Young was under arrest...
...They provided an informal atmosphere in which we got better acquainted with one another and with many distinguished guests, and they furnished us with mental refreshment and a great many important ideas on which to chew," he says...