Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest, however, I have little but priase. Mr. Britten has skillfully caught the governess's apprehensiveness and growing terror; Peter Quint is magnificently and compellingly evil--particularly in his first wordless and almost muezzin-like wall; and the children sing tunes and the new English music that is Mr. Britten's specialty...
...since New York Stock Exchange President Richard Whitney was packed off to jail in the 1930s had Wall Street come under such withering scrutiny. It was bad enough that the SEC was probing the American Stock Exchange after a series of scandals (TIME, May 5 et seq.), even more disturbing that SEC investigators were working overtime on more cases of market fraud and manipulation than ever before. But last week SEC Chairman William L. Gary suggested that the whole barrel of apples had better be tumbled out and examined. Testifying before a House subcommittee, Gary urged a full-dress investigation...
...counsel, who was plucked from his job as a Columbia law professor by President Kennedy last February to head the SEC. A Phi Beta Kappa with a staunch New Deal background, Cary served with the OSS in Rumania and Yugoslavia during World War II. No stranger to the Wall Street whirl, he worked part time during his Columbia days as special counsel to a Wall Street law firm...
...Broad? Many Wall Streeters, concerned about the Street's reputation, were not hostile to an investigation. For years responsible brokerage houses have been scandalized by the free-wheeling practices of the over-the-counter market, have regarded the succession of "hot issues" born there as just a way for some insiders to make a fast buck. Several mutual funds have been sued over the large fees they pay advisers, and mutual fund salesmen are widely regarded on the Street as men who sell stocks (and collect high commissions) much as door-to-door salesmen peddle Christmas cards...
...highly likely to get the money for its general investigation, but the question that bothers Wall Streeters is how the commission will ever find the time or the staff-even with $750,000-to handle so big a job. In his testimony before the subcommittee. New York Stock Exchange President Keith Funston argued that the heavily policed Big Board does not need probing and opposed any overall investigation. "We think it would be unwise," Funston said, "to direct the SEC to undertake broad new studies if these will divert its energy from the inquiries presently under way. It seems...