Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Walking heel-&-toe, British style, one can move twice as fast (a mile in 6 min., 30 sec.) as with an ordinary gait and two-thirds as fast as the best mile runners...
...Temporary National Economic (Monopoly) Committee, which fortnight ago was entertained by SEC Chairman William O. Douglas' smart display of the insurance industry's enormous power, last week heard Bill Douglas try to prove that insurance directors use their influence to swing business their own way. Evidence: 1) while a director of New York Life, Alfred E. Smith solicited fuel oil contracts for certain of its properties; 2) Mutual Life's deposit at Bankers Trust Co. jumped from $150,000 to $1,500,000 when Bankers Trust's President S. Sloan Colt became a director...
...Released the third of a series of 25 reports called the "census of American Listed Corporations." Prepared by WPA workers under SEC sponsorship, the reports are intended to bridge the gap between the tremendous volume of data in SEC's files and the potential users to whom it is now relatively inaccessible. The completed reports are sent to a selected list of 1,000 big brokers, bankers, statisticians, anyone else who writes in. First two were on meat packers and steel. Last week's dealt with chain variety stores. Sample fact: F. W. Woolworth...
Oetje (pronounced eachie) John Rogge was a Harvard Law School classmate of Tommy Corcoran, currently has the juicy job of handling SEC's attack on Transamerica Corp., the $138,000,000 bank holding company accused of registering "false and misleading statements...
Transamerica's boss, old Amadeo Peter Giannini, having retorted that it was simply a matter of accounting theory, began fighting SEC with all the wrath his hot Italian blood could generate. In Washington last week, after a month of legal fencing, Lawyer Rogge haled Mr. Giannini's personal secretary to court. She refused to talk. So did three other Giannini intimates. "This is the most outrageous case of contumacy I have ever seen," bellowed Lawyer Rogge, obtaining a recess until March...