Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President would appoint Supreme Court Justice Brandeis' successor before going south. It was understood the new man must be a Westerner. Several names, none of them a standout, were in the air. Then something happened: a journalist friend recollected that extremely able Chairman William Orville Douglas of the SEC, 40, was born in Minnesota, lived in the State of Washington from 1904 to 1922, hence is a Westerner. From his hospital bed in Baltimore, where he was recuperating from an appendectomy and faithfully hatching out some hen's eggs (TIME, Feb. 13), Janizary Thomas ("The Cork") Corcoran applauded...
...sponsors are Harlow Shapley, Paine Professor of Practical Astronomy; Howard Baker, instructor in English; Gordon W. Allport '19, associate professor of Psychology; Walter H. Piston '94, associate professor of Music; William Y. Elliott, Professor of Government; David Worcester, '27, instructor in English; David T. W. McCord '21, Executive Sec- retary of the Harvard Fund; Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Professor of English; James R. Brewster '25, Director of the Film Service; Theodore Spencer, assistant professor of English; Frederick C. Packard, Jr. '20, assistant professor of Public Speaking; Ernest J. Simmons, assistant professor of English; and Theodore Morrison '23, assistant professor...
Leon Henderson, Isador Lubin and Willard Thorp (TIME, Dec. 12). Shortly thereafter Thurman Arnold's Department of Justice trucked across the floor waggling a finger at patent monopoly in the glass container industries (TIME, Dec. 26). Last week it was the turn of SEC Chairman William O. Douglas. As everyone knows, Bill Douglas is a very agile fellow and when he revealed that his dancing partner would be the insurance business-far too dignified for Big Appling-everyone knew it would be fun watching...
...Continued its catch-as-catch-can bout with potent Transamerica Corp. Going into its fifth week, SEC's investigation of A. P. Giannini's big bank holding company, on charges of false stock registration (TIME, Dec. 12), was still in the legal fencing stage...
...latest luck were two more bankers with imagination, this time New Yorkers. One was Kuhn Loeb Partner Hugh Knowlton, whose company has been chaperoning Farnsworth financially for four years. The other was Harry Cooke Gushing of E. H. Rollins & Sons, Inc. Last week Farnsworth Television & Radio Corp. filed with SEC a registration statement covering 600,000 shares of $1 -par-value common stock. Mr. Cushing's firm will head a syndicate to raise over $3,000,000 from sale of the stock. Farnsworth Corp. will absorb The Capehart Inc. (famed record-changing phonograph) and the manufacturing facilities of General...