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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last straw is SECommission. This backward moppet, 39, reads first SECcommission. goes back and reads SEEcommission or secOMission; by then, remembers-until next week's issue-that in last week's issue, he finally managed to slur it into SEHcommission; by then, also realizes that he doesn'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

On the witness stand, the secretary attempted to state that the Union is neither Communistic or Fascist, but the chairman of the commission silenced him by saying that his summoning did not necessarily brand the Union as a subversive organization.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL COMMITTEE PROVES DANIEL SCHIRMER UNION RED | 11/20/1937 | See Source »

This is Mr. Lippmann's liberal alternative to the New Deal's gradual collectivism. How much of the New Deal does Lippmann's liberalism invalidate? It does not invalidate the S.E.C., the undistributed profits tax, the "death sentence" for Holding Companies, the C.C.C., the Social Security Board, P.W.A. or T.V.A...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

In September, Edward B. Smith & Co. and other investment houses underwrote an issue of 442,443 shares of Pure Oil Co. 5% preferred stock convertible into Pure Oil common at $22.22 per share. But the coincidence of the market smash with the slow period of gestation which the Securities & Exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I.B.A. | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

As retiring I.B.A. President Edward B. Hall declared last week, "the immediate outlook for new capital financing is discouraging." To make it less so, the I.B.A. decided, is up to the Government. Though SECommissioner George C. Mathews cordially asked for co-operation and Chairman Frank R. McNinch of the Federal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: I.B.A. | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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