Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obstetricians attended one mother at Philadelphia's Lying-in Hospital last week. So did a pediatrician and four assistants. Some of the doctors around Mrs. Joseph Cirminello, an SEC secretary, were merely spectators. But many were needed, because Mrs. Cirminello was being delivered of quadruplets by Caesarean section under spinal anesthesia-a feat unique in medical history. The operation was done six weeks before the normal birth date because the doctors thought that waiting would endanger the lives both of the mother and her brood. The obstetrician in charge: Dr. John Calvin Ullery of Upper Darby...
Social Legislation. Dewey is on record for retention of collective bargaining, the SEC, unemployment insurance, the broadening of Social Security, to take in the 20,000,000 Americans not now covered (farmers, domestic servants...
...bankers just by personal solicitation. The individualistic Stuart, determined to make LaSalle Street the equal of Wall Street, then began his clamor for competitive bidding-he wanted the securities business from which he was excluded thrown open to all comers. After eight years of Stuart drumfire, in 1941 the SEC decreed competitive bidding for utility holding company securities; and last May the ICC ordered competitive bidding for railroad bonds...
Morgan & Co. and Kuhn Loeb & Co. As neither bankers nor railroads can make a move today without the approval of either the ICC or the SEC, the Department of Justice must once more be attacking the competence of another Governmental agency...
...stop the rumors and quiet SEC, Graham-Paige hurried out with a statement full of intimate business details. Against the background of rumors, the statement made Joe Frazer, a 210-pounder, feel like a man undressing in public...