Word: sec
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...None are bold enough to glance at their self-assumed chaperone. Instead, a youth in checkered brown pants, and passes judgement: "There, gentlement, is a beauty. Perfect form," Two others are quick to follow his finger: "Where is she, the one in the green coat?" "No, no, over there; sec the lady holding the dog." "She's TERRIBLE!" "The dog you fool; male or female, it's a first-class Irish setter...
...first ten years of the meet's history, competitors at Fresno broke eleven world's records, tied three. Last week, they broke two more. Elroy Robinson, Merced, Calif, schoolteacher, ran 1,000 yards in 2 min., 9.7 sec.-to break the record made by Luigi Beccali of Italy in 1933. Stanford's 880-yd. relay team (James Kneubuhl, Ray Malott, Stanley Hiserman, Jack Weierhauser) scooted around the track in 1 min., 25 sec.-.8 sec. faster than the mark set by a University of Southern California team in 1927. Runner Weierhauser's tape-breaking...
...finance." Mr. Douglas spoke from two years' experience studying so-called protective and reorganization committees-"a vantage point from which the whole problem [of capital exploitation and dissipation] can be viewed advantageously." Last week the fourth and fifth reports on this subject prepared by Lawyer Douglas and his SEC co-workers were sent to Congress. Three had been submitted late last spring (TIME, May 18, June 29, 1936). Latest were an 833-page analysis of agencies for holders of defaulted foreign governmental bonds and a 916-page fact laden study of the strategy and technique of protective and reorganization...
...basis of material gathered at such hearings as those of Paramount Publix, Celotex Co., Kreuger & Toll, the SEC wants to extend its power to: 1) assure selection of independent trustees in reorganizations; 2) vest in the SEC extraordinary authority over solicitations of proxies and over deposits and assets of protective committees; 3) allow the SEC to intervene in an advisory capacity when reorganizations are under the jurisdiction of the courts as in 776 cases. Some of the powers asked by the Commission are incorporated in bills introduced by Kentucky's Senator Alben William Barkley and Tennessee's Representative...
...sprinkles his work with classical quotations and likes to spend his vacations in the U. S., the letter suggested that in view of the fact that the London Stock Exchange had just enjoyed the worst three-week break since the War, Britain could do worse than get itself an SEC. Wrote sarcastic Broker Burton-Baldry...