Word: investors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trial. In Chicago he and Otto G. Yant, bank cashier from Mallard, Iowa, who took over the enterprise after Hartzell's imprisonment, were chief defendants of the 41. Yant had been picked up by a detective from Chicago's confidence game detail who posed as an impatient "investor," got a thorough picture of the whole headquarters operations. When police and postal inspectors finally pounced last April, they impounded $60,000 in cash, $40,000 which was being transmitted to Chicago by express from suckers who had been warned against using the mails to send in their money...
...June 1, 1935 an investor could have purchased 100 shares in each of five leading agricultural implement companies for $17,000. Last week he could have sold these shares for $29,000. Even had the investor made his purchase as recently as Sept. 3, the last six weeks would have brought him an appreciation of $4,600. Last week's developments in the agricultural implement boom included...
...Behind the mountain of facts & figures still required in registration statements is a hard-headed theory often ignored by New Deal critics. Says SEC, in effect: "We know that investors will never take the trouble to plough through a registration statement. We know that many of them will not even read an offering prospectus, though we now insist that they at least have one in their hand before buying. Probably they would not understand it if they did read it. This mass of information is assembled, not for the average investor, but for the people who help make...
...knows better than Chairman Kennedy that even the new form involves the killing of cows for a pint of milk. To obtain a copy of Armour & Co.'s 121-page statement, filed a few weeks ago, an interested investor would have to pay SEC $17.10 in photostatting. Charges-15? per page for the first 100 pages, 110? per page for the rest...
...they kept. Mere fact that J. P. Morgan & Co. sponsored a corporation's securities was enough market-wise to send them soaring the instant they were issued. Since then, however, what with his memories of the Kreuger fiasco and other notable glimpses of bankers at work, the average investor has grown skeptical. Furthermore, New Deal legislation, like the requirement that all private bankers choose between their securities and their deposit business, has severed many a traditional corporate connection. Securities affiliates have been divorced from the big commercial banks and their staffs, migrating to private firms, carried clients with them...