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Last straw is SECommission. This backward moppet, 39, reads first SECcommission. goes back and reads SEEcommission or secOMission; by then, remembers-until next week's issue-that in last week's issue, he finally managed to slur it into SEHcommission; by then, also realizes that he doesn'...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Reader McNulty makes his point. Henceforth there will be no more unpronounceable TIME words, but TIME will be the judge, radiorator will stay but SECommission will be SEC Com-mission.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 22, 1937 | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

Joe, Jim & Bill. When the five-man SECommission was created in 1934 for the sole purpose of reforming Wall Street, worried speculators were mollified when one of their number-Joseph Patrick Kennedy-was made Chairman. A practical Irishman who was a close friend of Franklin Roosevelt, Joe Kennedy had no...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Bill and Billy | 10/11/1937 | See Source »

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