Word: sec
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...irony of the situation, Professor Sorokin told his Sec 1 class yesterday morning, was that he had just spent a goodly sum having the whole car checked and a new transmission...
...Howard Colwell Hopson could still grin from ear to ear as he boldly taunted a lumbering SEC. Last week the smile and boldness were gone. Ingenious, porcine Howard Hopson, charged with milking his now bankrupt $1,000,000,000 Associated Gas & Electric system of $20,000,000 in the biggest utility peculation of all time, went on trial for mail fraud and conspiracy...
...five years the name W. Kennedy had been on the sucker lists of security salesmen who, finding the going too tough in the U. S. under SEC administration, had fled to Canada to sell their wallpaper mining stocks by long-distance telephone. Fortnight ago, W. Kennedy's turn came. The telephone in his Chicago office rang. He picked up the receiver. The conversation...
...company, proposed to sell it to the public at 107 or 107½ Spread would be $330,000, of which Mellon Securities' cut would have been $48,000 (based on their original plan to take $2,400,000 of the issue). Since SEC has not yet decided what to do about the underwriting fees of banking houses found to be "affiliates" of utility holding companies, Mellon Securities proposed to impound its money...
...Otis headed San Antonio deals, threw the offer back at Mellon Securities. When Mellon Securities paid no attention to his kick, Eaton violated bankers' unwritten rules by going directly to the San Antonio management, asking whether he could submit a competitive bid. The San Antonio management, fearful of SEC repercussions if it refused, agreed to listen...