Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Between the fourth and fifth hurdles he stepped in a hole, was thrown off stride. Tommy Roberts came on rapidly. Over the last hurdle Towns squeezed ahead to break the tape, but mainly because Tommy Roberts tried to jump it. The result: Hurdler Towns by a nose in 13 sec. flat. Said he: "I'll take two-footed racers in the future...
...Hurdler Towns won the 100-yd. dash in 10 sec., the high jump at 6 ft., anchored a team that won the 880-yd. relay. His Troop F won the meet...
...Omaha, George A. Johnson challenged Cecil Higgenbottom to run a footrace. Mr. Higgenbottom has run 100 yd. in 14.5 sec. There are no time trials on Mr. Johnson. Each of the men has two wooden legs...
Whoever succeeds James McCauley Landis as chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission this fall will inherit not only old problems but a portfolio chock-full of new and zestful business. Milestones in the Commission's career last week were: 1) the first arrest brought about by SEC lawyers, and 2) the first application for reorganization filed with SEC under the Public Utility Holding Company...
Almost every broker in Wall Street has for months been talking this way in private. Reason at this time for speaking publicly was fear that the SEC would soon inaugurate its "segregation plan" announced last June. To achieve an investment market and reduce speculation, the SEC proposed, by segregating the functions of broker and dealer, to reduce the kind of quick-turnover buying and selling which these professionals practice. Unless a "valid case" against it were presented by the Exchange, Chairman Landis declared he would achieve this by: 1) placing all trading by members, on the floor...