Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...famous Yale '42 vs. Exeter meet produced as brilliant a set of times as 1939 is likely to sec. A world record of 1:02.1 in the 100 breast, a national Freshman record for the 2:12.5, in the 220, a similar record for the 100 free-style with a 54.8 o'clocking, an Incredible 1:1.4 in the 100 backstroke, and a sizzling 1:22.5 for the 150 medley relay were the eye-opening results...
...SEC began an investigation of the Coster-Musica scandal (TIME, Jan. 9), a perversion of Mother Goose went the rounds of Wall Street...
...James Delmage Ross when that alert public utilitarian was trying to raise money for the municipal system he managed in Seattle. After Mr. Ross was turned down by PWA and cold-shouldered by bigtime financiers, Mr. Myers raised $22,500,000 for him. When Mr. Ross went on to SEC, and Los Angeles started looking around for $47,000,000 for a municipal utility system, he put Mr. Myers in the way of that job. Few months before leaving SEC to administer Washington's Bonneville Project, Mr. Ross heard of the tribulations of Nebraska's "little...
...Corp. (which he controlled and which has 225 outside stockholders) to buy 1,000 shares of its stock from him at $23 a share about the same time he bought them for $15.12⅛. This sort of thing was not uncommon in the easy-going twenties. But last week SEC, District Attorney Dewey and State Attorney General Bennett launched investigations into possible criminal angles. Said Broker Sisto: "In my opinion my conduct was in all respects proper...
...Roman candle. In 1928 and 1929 Waddill Catchings got conservative old Goldman, Sachs & Co. to light up such investment-trust skyrockets as Goldman Sachs Trading Corp. and Shenandoah Corp., which soared and sank magnificently. Last week, while fireworks were still popping out of the McKesson & Robbins box (including an SEC investigation of Price, Waterhouse auditing), who should step in, match-in-hand, but impish Waddill Catchings...