Word: frequent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horrifying." Wall Street found rather horrifying what SEC did next. After SEC Chairman William O. Douglas and New York Stock Exchange President William McC. Martin Jr. had conferred, SEC issued a further reform program agreed on by the Exchange to prevent any more Whitney scandals. Main points: 1) more frequent questionnaires and auditings of member firms; 2) prohibition of margin transactions and the maintenance of margin accounts by member firms and partners doing business with the public; 3) establishment of a 15-to-1 ratio instead of the present 20-to-1 between a broker's indebtedness and working...
...during the course of required physical examinations; 3) the number of marriages in New York and New Jersey declined sharply after the laws became effective last July. Since August, however, New York marriages have been increasing and marriages in Connecticut, first State to pass a test law, are as frequent as ever...
...years ago the scientific curiosity of Dr. Erland Nelson, a psychology professor at Newberry College (Newberry, S.C.), was aroused by frequent reports in the press that this one or that one had called U.S. university youth radical. Equipped with an "opinionaire" (a test with questions on 60 controversial issues), Professor Nelson went to the horse's mouth, examined students on 18 campuses-four State universities, 14 denominational colleges-mostly in the Middle West. Sample issues raised: capitalism, communism, divorce, free trade, race toleration. Students who favored maintaining the status quo were rated "conservative," those who favored moderate changes were...
This fall, freshmen entering St. John's had no option. For four years they will study in classes only the 100 classics, no modern thinkers, no modern science. They are required to learn passages from the classics by heart, take frequent quizzes. Only departure from the 100 books: students may listen to a college collection of symphonic phonograph records, learn to play the piano...
Truces between the New Deal and the public utility industry have been about as frequent and as transient as European war scares. But last week came a truce which really seemed to amount to something. Columnist Arthur Krock enthused...