Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...took his familiar witness' seat in the air-cooled Ways & Means Committee room, Henry Morgenthau had a nine-page statement all ready. In his resonant baritone voice the Gentleman Farmer who is Franklin Roosevelt's chief fiscal agent read off, without specifically recommending anything, the list of questions which Congress might "wish to re-examine...
...many fought it bitterly, arguing that no one could take the risk of issuing securities because Section 11 of the Act provides that any purchaser of securities can recover damages from the issuers for subsequent losses if misrepresentations or omissions were made in the official registration statement. In six years of the Act's operations this bugaboo failed to materialize. Last week the dreaded event took place for the first time...
Subject to suit for a faulty registration statement are all the directors or partners in the firm issuing the securities, all the experts who attest to its accuracy, all the underwriters who float the issue. Last week a batch of these gentlemen was ordered in New York supreme court to stand and deliver. Among five so ordered was Charles H. Sabin Jr., eminently respectable son of the late president of Manhattan's Guaranty Trust...
...while the price went downhill, the four had no intention of going on a sleigh ride with it. They brought suit for the difference between the purchase price and the price on the day they filed the petition. They contended that Section 11 had been violated because the registration statement failed to mention options on the stock given to underwriters...
WASHINGTON--Retired Maj. Gen. George Van Horne Moseley today ended his testimony before the House committee on un-American activities after several heated clashes with members who subsequently ordered his prepared statement on yorld Jewry deleted from the committee record...