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...Such provisions as those handing the Federal Trade Commission broad authority over financial reports and regulating stock transactions of officials and. large (5% or more) stockholders have been tempered but little in the revised drafts (TIME, March 19). But the most important feature dealing solely with the brokerage business-margin requirements -was last week officially slated for revision. The man who turned the margin tide was the Stock Exchange's oldest and ablest foe-Lawyer Samuel Untermyer...
...House interstate commerce subcommittee voted to reduce basic margin requirements from 60 to 45 per cent. It also voted to delegate to the Federal Reserve Board the power to raise or lower the margin requirements...
With the Business School League Squash Championship nearly completed, the Mellon men are leading the other halls by a large margin and are practically assured of the title. The leaders still have three more matches to play before the schedule is finished, but only decisive defeats can prevent them from winning the championship...
...Reduction of margin requirements from 60% to around 40% of market price. Power to raise margins will be given to the Federal Reserve Board instead of the Commission...
...redrafting last week, the bill received its first major attack from within the Administration. Before the House Interstate Commerce Committee, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, no Wall Streeter, denounced it as entirely too drastic, predicted "disastrous" results if passed in its present form. Particularly he lashed the margin requirements, esti mating that $380,000,000 of unlisted securities would be dumped from brokerage accounts, and another $350,000,000 of listed stock would have to be liquidated to satisfy the 60% margin. Such wholesale liquidation, he warned, might reverse the upward curve of business. Like Ferdinand Pecora, Mr. Dickinson...