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Last week, March 18, I was plenty tickled with the way you wrote your article about me being spanked by the SEC. I expect maybe I ought to be scaired but it didn't hurt a bit. The letter the SEC wrote me was just a plain courteous letter, with no threatening and no cuss words, telling me that I had violated the law in advertiseing for a partner in a Public newspaper...
When Dean Landis speaks on administrative law in Langdell Hall of an evening, not only do young lawyers from Chelsea and East Cambridge tramp in to bear him, but the whole country knows that an expert, a former head of the SEC, is talking. Last night he tore into the Logan Bill, now in Congress, which would practically emasculate agencies like the AAA, NLRB, and SEC. It is a highly technical point--this question of what the powers of such special agencies should be--but it is fundamental to the whole philosophy of the New Deal; and the Logan Bill...
Last January, in its annual report, Atlas Powder Co. revealed that its new TNT plant at Wilmington was booked to capacity-through this year and into the first half of 1941-by rearmament orders of the U. S. Government and others. Last week, in a report to SEC, Atlas revealed how the belligerents have managed to get a preferred place on its TNT order books: $1,427,000 has been lent to Atlas by France and England, interest free, to be used for building a new TNT plant. All its output is to go to the Allies for shells, bombs...
...twelve-volume, 6,000-page bookshelf comprises all the knowledge that SEC has been able to gather about investment trusts in four years of study. It was assembled and mentally digested by Republican SECommissioner Robert E. Healy-onetime muckraker for the Federal Trade Commission-with the aid of 45 research workers, lawyers and statisticians. The bill which embodies their conclusions was drafted by SEC Attorney David Schenker, a 40-year-old, smart, cigar-masticating, witness-softening lawyer...
...them were launched in the 1927-29 boom, few of them have brought profit to their original investors. Against such a business record, it is easy to make out a case for very stiff regulation. But no death sentence for any existing trust capital structure is contained in SEC's bill. Nonetheless, investment men have already cried out that it is too drastic. Long hearings are ahead for it in Congress, and it may well be modified before it ever comes to a vote. Its chief provisions...