Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Price Headley's Menow, with Charley Kurtsinger up: the $76,000 Belmont Futurity, world's richest race for two-year-olds; in 1 min., 15 1/5 sec., to set a new world's record for 61 furlongs; with Tiger and Fighting Fox in a photograph finish four lengths behind; before a closing day crowd of 30,000; at Belmont Park, N. Y. To home-bred Menow, who has won only three races in six starts this season, last week's victory brought $56,800 to make him leading juvenile money-winner with a total...
Edward J. Baker's five-year-old Greyhound, No. 1 trotter of the decade: a mile race (against time); in 1 min., 56 sec. flat, finally breaking the world's record (1:56¼) set by famed Peter Manning 15 years ago; after three unsuccessful attempts this summer; at Lexington...
...Government's policeman of Wall Street, SEC has lately mellowed enough to be regarded with complacence, almost respect, even by brokers. But fortnight ago Bill Douglas actually was promoted to SEChairman. Last week, therefore, when he returned from vacation on Cape Cod to take over his new job in Washington, all Wall Street wondered whether the Policeman's Billy would not soon be whacking out stringent new reforms...
...prove a radical zealot. Instead, he mellowed under the mantle of office. Some of his oldtime liberal colleagues became bitter (he was eventually attacked by the New Republic), catalogued him as a conservative, denounced him for having lunched with Wall Street bigwigs. Although he worked prodigiously to keep the SEC's complex mechanism functioning, he did not launch any great crusade...
...studies in corporate reorganization and bankruptcy. A report he wrote on this subject in the Yale Law Review took the eye of Kennedy and Landis. Kennedy had never met Douglas and Landis knew him only slightly, but both were well aware of his record. In 1934, soon after the SEC got under way, Landis telephoned Douglas to come to Washington...