Word: cooke
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Finally, the 400-yd. free relay of Mitchell, Neville, Mike Cook, and Yntema came within 013 of finishing second in the race and the meet, as it swam an excellent record-shattering 3:08.536 for the third behind N.C. State and Penn. in a disappointing ending to a great team effort...
MARCH 1972. Sears called Mitchell again to solicit help in setting up a meeting with officials at SEC to discuss their investigation of Vesco. The meeting was held May 11. It was attended by Sears, William J. Casey, who was then SEC chairman, and G. Bradford Cook, who is the newly named SEC chairman...
...newly appointed chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, G. Bradford Cook would seem to be in an uncomfortable spotlight. At 35, he is the youngest man ever to head the agency, he is almost unknown among the Wall Streeters he will regulate-and he has one of the toughest acts in Washington to follow. In a whirlwind 22 months in office, his predecessor, William J. Casey, began more far-reaching reforms of the securities industry than at almost any time in the SEC's 38-year history. To mention only two, brokers who had always charged commissions fixed...
...Cook feels any pressure, however, it is not readily apparent. Only two weeks after taking over from Casey, who became Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, Cook is serving notice that he too will be an activist, but of a different kind. Instead of a machine-gun fire of new ideas, he indicates, Wall Street for a while can expect intensified pressure to complete the reforms that Casey began. "The pipeline is already full of Casey ideas," he explains, "and the task now is to move some of them through. My old division [the SEC division of market regulation...
...Cook's top priority will be the development of a central market system under which stock exchanges all over the country will be hooked together by a tape that will let investors know where they can buy or sell securities for the best possible price. At present, variations of 2% or more can occur for the same stock in different markets, but few investors are aware of it because most see quotes only on one exchange...