Word: shalt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any manner of likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth...
Three "D's." Almost forgotten in the bitter fight waged around the so-called "death sentence" for holding companies were numerous other "Thou Shalt Nots" in the act. Utility agents seeking to lobby Congress must hereafter register with SEC. Utility accounting methods are brought under the supervision of SEC and the Federal Power Commission which may order any item on a company's books changed. No officer or director of a bank, brokerage or investment house may serve as an officer or director of a utility?a provision which will bring wholesale shake-ups in personnel when it becomes effective...
Resonantly in his wig and gown Counsellor J. P. Eddy stood up in London's High Court last week and intoned: "Thou shalt not covet ... his manservant nor his maidservant nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that...
Asking for an end of Federal control except for overproduction, Mr. Byles trumpeted: "Some of us do not believe in fairies or panaceas or economic magic or in guaranteed profits or in price-fixing or think that a series of rules embodying in one form or another 'Thou shalts' and 'Thou shalt nots' will prove any more successful than they did when applied to the liquor traffic...
Fresh from the hands of Ferdinand Pecora and his young legalites, the original bill was a dogmatic double decalog for brokers, bankers and businessmen. The bill finally enacted still bristled with penalties, liabilities and thou-shalt-nots, but many of its cutting edges had been removed. No longer is a banker both a broker and dealer by definition. No longer is a bank forbidden to loan on sound but unlisted local securities. The odd-lot business and arbitrage are not annihilated by loose language. Even the much disputed margin requirements (45% for a starter) may be altered by the Federal...