Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sec. 1. Every member of the American Legion shall refrain from drunkenness, lewdness, or the advocacy of uneconomic or selfish measures...
...They [Messrs. Burns, Cohen & Corcoran] have chosen to come in here as friends of the court with what they are pleased to call suggestions, and I may add, measuring my words, that the so-called suggestions made by the chief counsel of the SEC would have been offensive to the dignity of a police court in his State of Massachusetts...
...when I realize it comes from the official representatives of the Government of the United States, I say that if that represents their conception of official duty and their temper toward citizens, then on bended knee I pray, 'God save the SEC and the people of these United States.' " Lawyer Davis requested that the charges of the Administration's three representatives be placed in permanent court records as a horrible example...
...suggested that that implied the unconstitutionally of the 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...
After the Baltimore battle, Mr. Landis chilled perceptibly, demanded in his first radio speech as SEC's chairman a court test that is "real and not a sham...