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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bayfront Park, where 4,000 oldsters and youngsters heard him castigate NLRB ("a new one ... on which employers and employes are represented rather than left-wing enthusiasts") ; Trade Treaties ("The Republican Party believes in imposing and retaining a tariff equal to the difference in cost of production abroad . . ."); SEC ("amended to be what it was intended to be, a protection against fraud, and not a weapon [of] the Government"); the Wage-Hour Law ("Nothing [so] threatens to throttle small business today . . ."); Social Security's payroll tax ("particularly oppressive"), Bob Taft was well into his third century of speeches since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CAMPAIGN: Speechmaking Candidate | 2/12/1940 | See Source »

...plan reduced to 1,738.2 The stockholders whose proxies he held were in the same boat. Stockholder Rich told Barnsdall Refining's President Oscar L. Cordell and Barnsdall Oil's President E. B. Reeser what he thought of the deal. They talked back. They pointed out that SEC had told Barnsdall Oil to consider the refinery a subsidiary and absorb its losses or divorce it altogether. Divorce would have meant bankruptcy. They showed him the refinery's books and properties. Last year Barnsdall Refining lost $150,000 (1938 loss: $1,432,520), and they argued that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PETROLEUM: Stockholder Rich | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

Last week, SEC gave its answer: denied the application. Byllesby & Co. got 60 days to "make such adjustments as they deem necessary," i.e., get out of Standard Gas and give up its 25% slice of Standard investment issues or register as a holding company and perhaps lay its head on the block for the SEC's death sentence. Said Byllesby Vice President Joseph H. Briggs: "It appears the only course open is liquidation of the voting trust and sale of the stock." From SEC came ominous rumbles that other investment houses may also feel the knout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Penalty for Holding | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Fortnight ago SEC sent the sprawling, tangled Associated Gas & Electric system to the reorganization wringer by forbidding its subsidiaries to pay it unearned dividends (TIME, Jan. 22). Then it rolled up its sleeves to help the Federal court simplify and integrate the system built with 172 subsidiary corporations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Contribution to Complexity | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Last week, SEC did its own little bit toward complication. Approved by SEC was a 173rd subsidiary for lame Associated, authorized was a $32,000,000 issue of bonds, notes and stock to form Virginia Public Service Generating Co., seven layers below Associated's teetering top. SEC's apology for adding to an "already overly complicated" system: new customers, including a torpedo factory, required additional service, and none of the Associated Gas tribe was strong enough to raise money for new generating capacity, so a new member had to be created...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Contribution to Complexity | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

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