Word: douglases
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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York Stock Exchange already had a rule against short sales "below'' the last price, SEC's action was not on its face of great importance. * More significant was SEC's remark that since the exchange's rule had not been effective, SEC would have to...
About three weeks ago, the ears of SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas tingled with pleasure when he received a telephone call from Partner George Whitney of J. P. Morgan & Co. Mr. Whitney informed him that vast ($236,000,000) United Corp. was finally willing to discuss registering with SEC under...
Bill Douglas had reason to be pleased, for United has been almost as big a stumbling block in hi's program of utility simplification as Electric Bond & Share. United not only is one of the biggest utility holding companies but it is the utility operator's conception of...
The President's truce has since gone down the drain in a barrage of New Deal attacks on Big Business. Last week Partner Whitney marched in to see Chairman Douglas in the flesh, told him that, after all, United would not register until the Supreme Court validates the Holding...
In Wall Street word promptly went the rounds that Mr. Whitney's retreat came after a bitter squabble in the utility family in which members of the industry brought pressure to bear on United Corp. to maintain the united front. Telling the story last week, Commissioner Douglas heaved a...