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...Appointed director of the trading and exchange division of SEC, succeeding Commissioner Ganson Purcell, was James A. Treanor Jr., up from SEC's ranks. He practiced law in Boston until 1933, went to Washington in the NRA era, later directed FCC's telephone investigation...
...office, President Roosevelt has picked moderately big names for SECommissioners. Last week he changed that policy. To fill the vacancy created when Jerome Frank became a Federal judge, he chose an SEC career man, scarcely known at all outside Washington and Wall Street: tall, calm, taciturn, young (36) Ganson Purcell...
Fortnight ago, Quinn went to Washington to call on late Boss Bailie's good friend Henry Morgenthau. When he told him about his idea, Morgenthau decided it fell into SEC's bailiwick, called over Jerome Frank, who took along his stock-market regulator, Ganson Purcell, and his investment trust muckraker and regulator, cigar-rotating, handball-playing David Schenker. When Quinn laid the idea on the table, Frank quickly recognized it as one of his fondest...
...honest, emotional, impulsive, self-centered girl, "not much to look at," Mabel Ganson enjoyed life in Buffalo, drove her unloved and unloving father to bed when she bobbed her hair long before bobbing was the style. She had a wild but innocent relationship with Seward Cary, husband of one of her friends who taught her to ride, took her on a coaching party through the Berkshires. One night, at a country inn while other members of the party were asleep, Cary "chased me all over the outside of the building; over roofs and down fire escapes, along mad, narrow ledges...
Eighteen years ago Mabel Ganson Evans Dodge Sterne Luhan, Buffalo socialite and intelligentsiac hostess, tired of Europe...