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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Your Jan. 21 edition, under Business and Finance, discusses a case involving the registration of securities with this Commission, and estimates what the company will receive for its securities "if SEC approves the new issue."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

It could reasonably be inferred from this that the Commission passes upon the investment merit of securities registered with it-that registration in itself may be taken as some assurance if not a guarantee against loss to those who purchase registered securities. General acceptance of such a misconception of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

Chet Bowles, hoping to bring things to a head, laid his resignation on the President's desk. Harry Truman had to face it. Reports were that he decided to cut Snyder down a little, lift Bowles to a bigger, better job, settle the steel strike with a price increase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: A Little More Hectic | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

The flow of Southern oratory which had stopped all Senate business since Jan. 17 ended by drowning all opposition. New Mexico's Senator Dennis Chavez, who had tried to force a vote on establishing a permanent Fair Employment Practices Commission, finally gave up. The 24-day filibuster triumphantly ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: Back to Work | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

In Manila this week, Japan's tall, suave Lieut. General Masaharu Homma, convicted of responsibility for the Bataan Death March, was given punishment to fit the crime. A U.S. military tribunal sentenced him to march to death-then decided, unlike the commission which decreed hanging for Yamashita, that death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Turnabout | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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