Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glenn Cunningham: the 1,500-metre run of the National A.A.U. track championships; in 3 min. 48.4 sec., setting a new indoor world's record; in Manhattan...
Surprised and pleased last week was SEC Chairman William Orville Douglas by a sudden rush of utility holding companies to register with the commission. Though the constitutionality of the 1935 Public Utility Holding Company Act is still undecided by the Supreme Court, fortnight ago the $570,000,000 United Light & Power Co. voluntarily registered under the act. Last week two more utility holding companies knocked at SEC's door -Engineers Public Service Co., which registered all $369,000,000 of its assets, and Cities Service Co., which asked for exemption for itself but registered the $428,000,000 assets...
...familiarize new Commissioners Jerome Frank and John Hanes with a two-and-a-half-year-old Wall Street investigation upon which a decision appeared near at hand, SEC held a review of the charges that White, Weld & Co. manipulated the stock of A. 0. Smith Corp...
...Gumchewers are referred to, Homer quoted, both on page 23 of the first issue of TIME (sec supplement...
...shaking his head over the case, began to wonder if it were quite so clear an example of frustration as the newspapers thought. Interstate Hosiery stock had gone up from $7 to $42.50 a share while Mr. Marien was doing its accounting. That fact was noted with interest by SEC. But before Mr. McCall and SEC can find out anything very definite they will have to wait while a new firm of accountants tries heroically to untangle Mr. Marien's cat's cradle...