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...also accused of arranging for Sisto Financial Corp. (which he controlled and which has 225 outside stockholders) to buy 1,000 shares of its stock from him at $23 a share about the same time he bought them for $15.12⅛. This sort of thing was not uncommon in the easy-going twenties. But last week SEC, District Attorney Dewey and State Attorney General Bennett launched investigations into possible criminal angles. Said Broker Sisto: "In my opinion my conduct was in all respects proper...
...rooms. As economist, he attended the famous dinner at which Dr. William A. Wirt later said he had heard that Roosevelt was a U.S. Kerensky and that a flock of Reds were waiting to take over the Government; then, with a series of 25? and 50? pamphlets (Brass Tacks, Uncommon Sense, Waste), of which he has sold over 1,000,000 copies, he proved himself a persuasive, new-fangled economist, but no Red. At present he works for the National Resources Board in Washington. Franklin Roosevelt has often espoused Coyle theories but met their author only once...
...Kaden's keen dental eye is right. Governor Chandler's upper right and left laterals are missing. This lack is abnormal but not uncommon: the Governor's 12-year-old daughter Mimi lacks the same two teeth...
...press notwithstanding, almost everything said and done at the annual Washington convention of the American Society of Newspaper Editors is off the record. Farthest off the record is the informal "interview" with the President. But last week, when the nation's editors left the White House, their uncommon exhilaration revealed something of what had been said inside. The President had doffed the good humor which he invariably shows to the editors' reporters. What was to have been an interview became a lecture with the editors on the receiving end. The President told his callers that they...
...would be allowed to argue before it or assist at hearings in connection with cases which were pending during their SEC employment without first obtaining permission. FPC announced that no for mer members could appear before it or assist at hearings within one year after resigning. By no means uncommon, similar rules are already in effect for the Treasury Department and the Federal Communications Commission, though not for the Federal Trade or the Interstate Commerce Commission...