Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...women and a boy. When the warders flung the murderer on the machine, part of the platform collapsed, but they managed to clamp his neck under the knife anyway. The heavy blade fell and Mr. Miller observed that "a hideous spurt of blood gushed out." Time elapsed: 26 sec. Three years later, star Reporter Miller turned war-weary eyes on other Frenchmen potting Riffs. In 1930 he hurried from London to cover Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign in India. While Mr. Miller looked on at Dharasana, native police under the direction of British officials methodically clubbed and booted rank...
Greatly heartened in this vigilance was SEC by the Roosevelt victory. It meant a clear path for the investment trust regulation which SEC will recommend to the next Congress. It was a full-speed signal for SEC's plan for segregating the function of broker and dealer, conferences with the reluctant New York Stock Exchange on that subject being scheduled for this week. And it was apparently considered a general order to SEC for brisker performance on its regular beat patrolling the U. S. securities business...
Down cracked SEC last week with a restraining order on eight individuals for alleged manipulation of Suburban Electric Securities Co. on the Boston Stock Exchange. Down cracked SEC on the big New York Stock Exchange house of W. E. Hutton & Co. and an Oakland (Calif.) partner of William Cavalier & Co. for alleged manipulation of Atlas Tack, a luckless stock whose gyration once attracted the attention of the New York Attorney General (TIME, Jan. 1, 1933). In that operation Atlas was strong-armed from a Depression low of $1 per share to a 1933 high of nearly $35, only to relapse...
...White House press conference, President Roosevelt was deeply concerned over the amount of foreign capital now invested in the U. S., particularly the large sums of timorous money which have sought temporary refuge in Manhattan and might be repatriated at an embarrassing rate should confidence be restored abroad. Both SEC and the Federal Reserve Board, said the President, were studying how to control this "hot" money by legislation...
...fast pianist was Ignace Jan Paderewski, a challenger to Scott last week only in his Duo-Art recordings. In the fastest section of the Hungarian Rhapsody, Paderewski plays 156 notes in six seconds, or 26 notes per second. Scott managed to outspeed the great Pole by 1½ sec. Scott's all-time record is 44½ notes per second...