Word: counter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Over-the-Counter. SEC's chief difficulty in policing the borders of the legitimate securities business is its lack of control of over-the-counter markets, a vast and undefined realm composed of perhaps 8,000 dealers. Congress provided SEC with powers to regulate over-the-counter by "such rules & regulations as the Commission may prescribe as necessary or appropriate in the public interest." Just what would be necessary or appropriate no one knew, and Commissioner Landis and his researchers have been groping diligently ever since. SEC's first step was a census: all dealers must be registered...
...where he had been fishing with-of all people- President John P. ("Jack") Bickell of Mclntyre Porcupine Mines (gold), "richest bachelor in Canada," and Manhattan's legendary speculator, Bernard E. ("Ben") Smith, who is called a "money magnate'' in the Dominion Press. The Government's counter attack was planned at Jack Bickell's home located at Port Credit. "The financial interests undertook to discipline the Government of Ontario because of its stand on the power purchase question," thundered a Cabinet statement. "The challenge is not to the Administration but to popular government...
...take it to the bank, get gold for it and do as you please with the gold. This test the Bank of France met stubbornly, day after day, with long lines of people applying for the minimum-sized French gold bars worth $12,000 each, receiving these over the counter in a steady yellow stream, tucking them into satchels and quietly dispersing. Not rich folk, most of the French gold buyers were humble but trusted representatives of town and village groups or syndicates who felt that temporarily their money would be safest in gold, knew their rights. Since the village...
...ninth goal for the Blue riders was balanced by a counter for Army, but in the last two minutes of play Grace sent the winning tally across the line for a Yale victory...
...novel which so undeniably approximates the claims of an extensive prepublication critical fanfare. Even for him who does not go in for horrors as such there is something very gratifying in reading this grim, well-told, and certainly convincing piece of military muckraking while, after the usual marches and counter-marches, stray buglers of the Junior American Legion Band gather under windows and drive all peaceable citizens into an anti-militarist frenzy. This was the reviewer's experience, and it no doubt gave "Paths of Glory" its maximum effect...