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Word: sec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said, he flew to Manila and from there flashed word that he was getting the Philippine Commonwealth to take the issue over at $50 or maybe $65. The bonds shot up to $31 last January and February, crashed when President Manuel Quezon categorically denied his Government was buying them. SEC found that speculators-for-the-rise had lost about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORRUPTION: Bonds & Blondes | 12/12/1938 | See Source »

...fair and disinterested third party," replied Mr. Willkie. He suggested the SEC. Mr. Willkie said Mr. Lilienthal had vetoed a suggestion that both sides name an arbitrator and the Supreme Court nominate a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POWER: Brutal Doctrine | 12/5/1938 | See Source »

...seemed to be standing still. It was Seabiscuit who was pulling away-one length, two lengths, three lengths-in a crazy burst of speed. Still going away when he crossed the finish line four lengths ahead, the little ex-plater set a new track record (1 min., 56 3/5 sec.) for a mile-and-three-sixteenths...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Man o' Warriors | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

Wall Street last week came to the dregs of the Richard Whitney cup. Having issued a factual summary of the case and a set of drastic rules to prevent its recurrence (TIME, Nov. 7), SEC wrote finis to the tragedy with a stinging lecture and rebuke to the Old Guard which Richard Whitney once ruled. Excerpt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETS: Code of Silence | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

...applied for Wigglesworth and have a hall bedroom in Apley Court. I haven't yet met any of the important people on the campus. When ever I try to sec a Dean, his secretaries give me a deadpan or a freezcout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 11/14/1938 | See Source »

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