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Amazed last week was Chairman James McCauley Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission by the name sent in to him by a caller-President Sydney Richard Inch of Electric Bond & Share, biggest power holding company in the U. S. and defendant in the SEC's test suit on the Public Utility...
...Roosevelt Bull Market, now running into its 19th month. To the White House he summoned the two men the New Deal has charged with responsibility for the stockmarket's behavior, Chairman Marriner Stoddard Eccles of the Federal Reserve Board, which controls margins and credit, and Chairman James McCauley Landis of the Securities & Exchange Commission, which has the police powers. On leaving the White House, Chairman Landis said nothing. Chairman Eccles reiterated the well-known fact that the long rise has been largely a cash affair-a pronouncement which in another Administration might have been taken as a bullish...
...Charles Richard Gay or the Curb's Fred C. Moffatt. In Cleveland last week they complained bitterly about present high margin requirements (55%) which, they feel, are driving speculators to foreign markets or into other fields like real estate or commodities. Soothing speeches from SEChairman James McCauley Landis and other Federal market policemen failed to quiet their fears. Moreover, Federal regulation itself seemed to be favoring Manhattan markets at the expense of the little exchanges. They have lost a good number of securities because corporations preferred delisting to filing a registration statement. Furthermore, because a listing on a small...
...cannot force a holding company to register but Title I of the Act states that "after Dec. 1, 1935, unless a holding company is registered . . . it shall be unlawful for such holding company, directly or indirectly" to transact normal business. Maximum fine for each violation: $200,000. SEChairman James McCauley Landis has made registration easy, insisting that filing will not impair the powermen's right to challenge the Act's constitutionality at a later date. Last week in a final effort to woo the industry under the wire Chairman Landis offered to accept "conditional" registration which would...
...Jameses to Amherst, the Stokeses to Yale, where Father Anson Phelps Stokes was University secretary for 22 years and where Son Ike was a Phi Beta Kappa in the Class of 1929. Tall, lean, cerebral, humorless, Ike Stokes later went to Harvard Law School, graduating in time for James McCauley Landis to take him to Washington as his secretary for a year. Now 29, he works in the SEC law department which let him "ghost" temporarily for Commissioner Mathews...