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Dates: during 1930-1939
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SEC has long been anxious to stop partners in brokerage firms from margin speculating. Last week the New York Stock Exchange issued a new regulation to satisfy SEC. It forbade general partners of member firms from trading on margin through their own or other member firms. (Like other investors, they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Relatives Watched | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Last week grey-haired C. C. Cook, first and only cashier of the Booneville bank, got sore. He announced that the bank would pay no interest after June 30. If they still refused to come for their money, he threatened to mail it to them by check.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BANKING: Direct Action | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

When Boston's burly, tiger-hunting, spade-bearded Republican Representative George Holden Tinkham rose to speak in the House for the first time in half a dozen years he was saddened by a new kind of heckling. Again & again as he warmed to his theme (neutrality), and strode dramatically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

Planning to raise cash for Spain by staging bullfights in the U. S. and other nations, Matador Marcial Lalanda, president of Spain's Bull Fighters' Syndicate, announced: "We are going to give them [the horses] morphine so that they will not suffer even if they are gored by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 10, 1939 | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

In Phenix City, Ala., a prosperous town of 13,862 inhabitants, you can buy pretty much everything in the way of standard U. S. commodities, entertainment, even a good many luxuries. But if you want to read a book in Phenix City, you must either borrow one or go across...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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