Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After 1:49 sec. of the fourth round, Referee Arthur Donovan untangled Galento from the ropes, awarded a technical knock out to Louis and dragged Galento to his corner. When he came to and had his fat face put back together with 23 stitches, the gallant little tavern-keeper set some kind of world's record by being just as unafraid of Louis as when he went into the ring. He still thought he could beat him. "I just got a little careless," he explained through lacerated lips. "That bum's way overrated. He's not even...
...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 can, of course, trade on borrowed money if they obtain it elsewhere.) Exempt from this rule were specialists and certain technical transactions. The Exchange warned partners that the brokerage accounts of their close relatives would be scanned to see that the spirit of the new rule was observed...
...evening last week, genial, popeyed Jerome Frank made his maiden appearance as chairman of SEC, at the maiden dinner of Manhattan's Association of Customers' Brokers, at which bigwig brokers like Carle Conway and Paul Shields were much more in evidence than customers' men. Chairman Frank seized the occasion to issue, not an SEC blast against Wall Street, but a solemn warning and appeal for cooperation...
Said he plainly: ". . . we offer you this choice: 1) You can have more SEC regulation of brokers' activities-regulation designed to insure customer safety, or 2) by the establishment of brokerage banks, you can, as far as this subject of customer protection is concerned, get rid of the SEC and of SEC regulations on that subject. We much prefer the latter: it is far simpler, less expensive, less irritating to you and less difficult for us." from an annual 160 to 220 per bird without increased feeding; annual milk output from...
...University of California's varsity oarsmen: the Intercollegiate Rowing Association Regatta, No. 1 U. S. crew race; rowing the four miles in 18 min., 12.6 sec., a new course record; on the choppy Hudson River, off Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Second-place Washington, finishing 1.5 sec. behind, also broke the old record...