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...Securities & Exchange Act, Mr. Davis declared: "Modesty reigned when that Act was drawn and passed and there was a bow at least to constitutional power. I find in this [Utility] Act not so much of a gesture." Earlier in the week SEC's new Chairman James McCauley ("Chink") Landis had invited representatives from all the major holding companies to Washington for what turned into almost a love feast...
...wife to put one of their sons in the London School of Economics, a daughter in a Paris convent. He said he was "out of politics . . . for the rest of my natural life." On the President's say-so, the other SECommissioners elected as Chairman Kennedy's successor James McCauley Landis who helped frame the Securities Act of 1933 while serving on the Federal Trade Commission...
...case of the Commissioners, Joe Kennedy has to hold his own against two lawyers and an accountant. James McCauley Landis was the lean, young Harvard Law School professor who helped write the Securities Act of 1933 while serving on the Federal Trade Commission. Since Ferdinand Pecora resigned to become a New York justice. Commissioner Landis has been the sole SECommissioner with authentic New Deal credentials. Businessmen used to be terrified by his brilliant mind and by his saturnine eyes. Lately they have found him more sympathetic (see cut). Under the Landis wing are SEC's research divisions...
...three-year term went to trade commissioner James McCauley Landis, who helped draft the Stock Exchange Act and has been itching to get his regulatory fingers on Wall Street...
...dinner in Chicago, Braintruster James McCauley Landis, now slated for chairman of the new Securities & Exchange Commission, purred reassuringly: "I bring you a picture of hope and not of fear-hope in our securities markets. The objectives of Government and industry so far as security legislation is concerned are identical-honest markets and full and continued disclosure of the character of offerings made. . . . Regulation with such objectives is neither regimentation nor enforced control. . . I noted the other day that Richard Whitney, president of the New York Stock Exchange, said that on the whole the Act was all right. Praise from...