Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...French 6 55 41% 23% 23% 84% 66% Latin B 53 21% 2% 99% 50% French A 53 2% 2% 14% 98% 80% Phil. B 51 30% 20% 15% 88% 66% German E 50 13% 10% 5% 75% 75% Physics F 34 11% 4% 7% 99% 99% Sec. A 32 36% 20% 12% 79% 53% Physics A 32 40% 24% 24% 97% 59% English...
These things, and the fact that, economist or no, he has little technical knowledge of finance, moved Wall Street to try to head off his appointment, may move some Senators to oppose the confirmation of his appointment. The fact that he was named to succeed Chairman Bill Douglas on SEC does not mean that he will automatically become its chairman. Legally, SEC elects its own chairman. How much opposition to his confirmation develops may depend on whether assurance is quietly given to the Senate that SEC will elect as chairman some one else, such as Commissioner Jerome Frank...
Lengthening the gap on each hill, the wooden-faced Indian, pattering along in the rain, was soon out of sight of his closest rival. When he reached the finish line, a roar of applause greeted him. His time: 2 hr., 28 min., 51 4/5 sec.-more than 27 seconds faster than the alltime record set by Japan's Kitei Son in the 1936 Olympics. Crowned with the traditional laurel wreath and hailed as a super-runner, Marathoner Brown, a stone mason by trade, smiled feebly. Said he: "I would like to have a steady job instead...
...Germany to get his first look at a planetarium. He was thrilled. Since then he has directed two solar eclipse expeditions and two years ago, on a freighter in the Pacific with Astronomer John Quincy Stewart of Princeton, witnessed the longest total eclipse of the sun (7 min. 6 sec.) seen by man in more than 1,200 years...
...York Stock Exchange closed its doors, did not reopen for nearly five months. Since then the U. S. has changed from a debtor to creditor nation and its markets are less susceptible to foreign liquidation. Also since 1914 the Government has acquired, in the Federal Reserve and SEC, a degree of financial control far firmer than even the elder J. P. Morgan could mobilize. Thus last week, as official Washington unofficially talked of war within a few days (see p. 15), and as the emotionally exhausted stockmarket fluttered weakly in an attempt to keep up with hourly news from Europe...