Word: stanleys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bill of Divorcement. The Government asked that the 17 defendants be prohibited from acting both as adviser and underwriter for any company, or from having a representative on the board of such a company. Most important, the Government asked that the nine largest firms (Morgan Stanley; First Boston; Dillon, Read; Kuhn, Loeb; Blyth; Smith, Barney; Lehman Bros.; Harriman Ripley; Goldman, Sachs) be prevented from participating in any securities-selling syndicate in which any of the others participates...
Plan of Battle. Most Wall Streeters thought that the suit was designed chiefly to make competitive bidding compulsory. It is now optional for industrial security issues. Unnamed in the suit was the second largest (next to Morgan Stanley) investment banking firm in the U.S.-Halsey, Stuart & Co., of Chicago, which has long advocated such competition. The only financier to applaud the suit was another champion of the same cause, Cyrus Eaton, of Cleveland's Otis...
Harvard's A.V.C. chapter, largest in the state, will elect its influential delegation to the forthcoming state convention at Springfield in a special meeting at 7:30 o'clock tonight in Harvard 6, Chairman Stanley G. Karson '48 said yesterday...
Bigger Game. Viruses are proteins, and are therefore made chiefly of amino acids. By delicate chemical methods, Stanley's group knocked out or added amino acids. Vigorous viruses became weak. Mild viruses turned into virulent killers. In one case a transformed virus transmitted its new character to its offspring. For the first time, man had succeeded in changing a virus' heredity...
...Stanley is stalking even bigger game. Viruses are very much like genes, the submicroscopic particles in living cells which control heredity. It is possible, Stanley suggested last week, that slight changes in a gene's amino acids might cause changes in heredity. If so, could man control his own evolution by tinkering with his genes? Says Dr. Stanley: "Perhaps . . . knowledge of this type could affect the destiny of all living things...