Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Effected regulation of over-the-counter security trading after three years' study by SEC. Passed by Congress just before adjournment was the Maloney bill granting SEC indirect control over 0-T-C trading through dealers' associations. The 9,000-odd active 0-T-C dealers are supposed to band together in geographical groups, draw up rules, elect officers and police themselves (all subject to SEC approval). If SEC decides that this has failed to prevent manipulation, excessive commissions, other unfair practices, it may step in. Though last week's act exempted dealers in Government, State and municipal...
...Reshaped the bankruptcy laws to give SEC more authority...
...trustees and officers who manage the affairs of the American Medical Association sat silent for 16 min., 40 sec. in a San Francisco room last week. Cause: A preview of the MARCH OF TIME'S monthly cinema on the topic Men of Medicine-1938, a picture of how a young man gets his medical education and interne training, how he sets up practice in a typical small U. S. community, how he accidentally gets and skilfully operates on his first appendix case, how he gives his service free to the poor who attend hospital clinics...
Delighted with this cinema report not only on the U. S. No. 1 medical controversy but on laboratory, office, sickroom and operating room procedures, the heads of the A. M. A. broke their 16 min. 40 sec. silence, voted the A. M. A.'s first official endorsement of a commercial moving picture: "The Board of Trustees of the A. M. A. expresses sincere appreciation of the MARCH OF TIME'S Men of Medicine-1938 as excellent educational material revealing advance of medical science and service of medical science to the sick...
...consider how to increase bond-trading on the floor of the Exchange, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas last week sat down with a round table of Exchange members, potent Wall Street investment bankers and representatives of the big insurance companies. Ideas broached to aid the Exchange included: 1) lowering the commission charged from one-quarter of a point to the one-eighth generally charged OTC; 2) admitting big bond dealers and institutions to associate membership on the Exchange...