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...security exchanges) should be put under the Securities and Exchange Commission's close supervision. SEC should also be empowered to go after "penny stock" promoters who keep "most of the money" from the sale of their stock but dodge SEC by keeping their issues under $300,000, the cutoff point for SEC regulation of any kind. Further, SEC, the State Department and the Canadian government should join forces to prevent confidence men north of the border from selling "ten to 50 millions of dollars" in worthless securities every year in the U.S. The report also laid out the committee...
...story, a sort of musical cutoff on The Road to Rome, by Playwright Robert Sherwood, is an amiable bit of pig Latin. Esther is cast as Amytis, betrothed of Fabius Cunctator (George Sanders), the Roman dictator, in 216 B.C. But Esther is bored. Then all at once Hannibal (Howard Keel) crushes the Roman legions and marches on the city. "Ah," cries Esther, "wotta day!" She sneaks out to meet the enemy on her own terms. Hannibal orders her put to death. Esther takes off her cloak. He orders her put to bed. The tactical problems she presents are so engrossing...
...adventurers," and finally Stalin called them "criminals." Churchill and Roosevelt wanted to drop arms and supplies to the beleaguered Warsaw fighters, then land their planes on Soviet territory (because of the long distance from Western air bases). Stalin refused permission. Churchill was so angry that he considered threatening a cutoff of the Allied supply convoys to Russia. But the needs of the Grand Alliance were still paramount and he did not "propose this drastic step." Yet Churchill adds: "It might have been effective, because we were dealing with men in the Kremlin who were governed by calculation...
...could be give & take. The tentative U.N. proposal was that Indian troops alone would guard the prisoners, that the other four nations would supervise. The U.N. was now willing that a post-truce political conference should discuss the fate of unwilling prisoners, but not endlessly: there would be a cutoff point after which the remaining prisoners would be automatically freed...
...Cutoff Point. The telephone rang. Chairman Cartwright answered. It was a customer making an inquiry. The board chairman was just framing an answer when the switchboard operator cut him off the line. Cartwright hung up and the telephone rang again. It was another customer. The switchboard operator's piping voice cut in to explain: "I can't get any answer from the sales department, Mr. Cartwright." Chairman Cartwright's overloaded temper burst forth to Managing Director Pethybridge, who started to agree: "Of course people must go out for cups of tea in the middle of the morning...