Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congressman John W. Murphy, Democratic member of the Pearl Harbor Investigating Committee (which finished hearings last week after taking more than 8,500,000 words of testimony), as U.S. District Judge for middle Pennsylvania; 2) Harvard Law School Dean James M. Landis, Roosevelt brain-truster, former head of SEC and OCD, to membership on the Civil Aeronautics Board. CJ Received from the Banking Committee a bill to raise the price of silver from 71? to $1.29 an ounce within two years...
...interested spectator of these, and 14 similar transactions, was the Securities & Exchange Commission's chief watchdog, James Aloysius Treanor Jr., a husky, hardworking lawyer who caught the eye of SEC by the way he had run an FCC investigation of the telephone system. He joined SEC as a lawyer, succeeded Ganson Purcell (now head of SEC) as director of the Trading & Exchange division in 1941. A soft talker, who used SEC's big stick sparingly, he has been watching new issues...
...SEC asked chapter & verse on all sales of the 16 issues. It also suggested a new rule, making it illegal for an underwriter to sell a new issue for more than the public offering price, or to sell it to partners or employes in the brokerage firm. Brokers, who have learned that SEC's "suggestions" are something close to law, are expected to comply...
...customers moved to the newly paned windows (ten times shattered by bombs), watched Oxford sweep across the line three lengths ahead, in the passably good time of 19 mins. 54 sec. (record: 18:03). Not one of Oxford's crew showed the exhaustion that Cambridge's heavier oarsmen did. It was Oxford's 43rd win (to 48 for Cambridge...
...this, SEC suspended Van Alstyne Noel for ten days from the National Association of Security Dealers, Inc., in effect, barred it from underwriting for that period. Andy would have to find another broker. And Wall Streeters now might not be so eager to buy his stock...