Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Certain Age (Deanna Durbin, Melvyn Douglas, Jackie Cooper; TIME, Oct. 10).
Considering that he is a New Dealer, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas now has fairly good repute in Wall Street. Year and a half ago, however, he could justly claim to be the Street's pet aversion-invited to speak before the Bond Club of New York, he produced...
Last week such was Wall Street's mollification toward Chairman Douglas that two of its leading firms finally acted upon this advice. Tri-Continental Corp. and Selected Industries Inc., investment trusts on behalf of whose sponsoring bankers, J. & W. Seligman & Co., the Bawl Street Journal once advertised, "Tri Continental...
Undaunted, Jerry Cuppia kept demanding reform, joined forces with such men as Howard Sykes, independent broker, Henry C. Brunie of L. A. Mathey & Co., Theodore V. D. Berdell of Berdell Brothers. Eventually the Old Guard permitted the appointment of a committee to investigate reorganization. The hollowness of the committee'...
Last week the reformers finally forced the Old Guard to capitulate and offered a plan genuinely patterned on that devised by the Conway Committee for the Big Board, including paid president, public representation, democratic committee rule. This time SEC Chairman Douglas commented: "Forthright and realistic." Curb members, who are voting...