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...diligence to learn the essential facts relative to every customer." Reynolds Securities, which handled more than $100,000 of Treff's trades, has fired the salesman who dealt with him. All salesmen involved in the incident were ordered to appear before stock exchange officials. Exchange administrators plan to tighten enforcement of trading and credit rules. Eventually, they suggest, customers may find it more difficult to open an account, or even to make transactions over the phone...
...such an important body" as the Pay Board. Boldt strenuously rejects such criticism. "I have not just been sitting on my fanny around here," he told TIME Correspondent Mark Sullivan. "I am confident that from now on we are going to have a majority of individuals voting to tighten things up to hold down inflation." The tightening should also be applied to the board's own operation. After labor members freely discussed the aerospace vote with newsmen waiting in the lobby last week, P.R. Man Herbert Wurth was nonetheless forbidden by the board's new executive director, Robert...
...Wilmot encourages me" Woods said. "He keeps me going; he is the minister of defense. Messing is a great guy; he is the key to my performance. He keeps saying 'all right Rob' or 'tighten up there'. Wilmot helps by just being there, but the best relationship is having Shep behind...
Little effort has been made to tighten up the law; last year President Nixon vetoed a bill that would have limited campaign spending on broadcasting. But growing public pressure, abetted by such groups as Common Cause and the National Committee for an Effective Congress, has forced a new look at the whole murky apparatus of campaign funding...
Under Casey's guidance, the SEC has moved briskly to enforce negotiated brokerage-commission rates on stock trades of more than $500,000, order stricter capital requirements for securities firms, tighten up corporate bookkeeping and require all companies whose stock is bought by the public to make fuller disclosures of financial information. Last week the SEC proposed new rules that would unequivocally prevent brokerage firms from using customers' cash and securities for their own purposes; the regulations would supersede New York Stock Exchange rules, which were not always obeyed. Next week Casey will conclude a month of hearings...