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January 9, 1950

A Proposal to Safeguard Investors in Unregistered Securities - SEC Supplemental Report to Congress

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Milton P. Kroll and Family)

January 12, 1950

Memo from Walter C. Louchheim, Jr., SEC Adviser on Foreign Investment to SEC Commission on proposed registration of Royal Dutch Petroleum Company

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

January 20, 1950

LIFO (Last In, First Out) and FIFO (First In, First Out) - George O. May

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

January 21, 1950

American Institute of Accountants Release - National Institute of CPAs Defends Connecticut Board of Accountancy

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

February 7, 1950

Letter from Harold Ickes to Justice William Douglas on Supreme Court decisions

[transcript] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

February 16, 1950

Our Constitutional Philosophy - Address by Justice Stanley Reed before the Juristic Society

[transcript] (pdf) (Stanley Forman Reed Collection, University of Kentucky)

February 23, 1950

Letter from Baldwin B. Bane to Charles J. Odenweller, Jr. regarding David Colby v. Raymond Klune and 20th Century Fox Film Corporation

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

March 15, 1950

Outline of Remarks by Earle C. King before the Monthly Technical Meeting of the Pittsburgh Chapter of National Association of Cost Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (Government Records)

March 24, 1950

Memo from Walter C. Louchheim, Jr., SEC Adviser on Foreign Investment to SEC Commission on Japanese dollar bonds

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

April 1950

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

May 1, 1950

Letter from Richard B. McEntire, SEC Acting Chairman, to Senator Burnet R. Maybank regarding S.2765

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

May 22, 1950

"The Corporate Controller's Relations to the Securities and Exchange Commission," Address of Earle C. King, SEC Chief Accountant before the Midwestern Spring Conference of the Controllers Institute of America

[transcript] (pdf) (Government Records)

May 24, 1950

Inquiry from Gordon Gray, White House to SEC Chairman Harry A. McDonald on foreign securities offerings in the U.S.

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

Summer 1950

Mr. Justice Rutledge - Law Clerks' Reflections, by Victor Brudney and Richard F. Wolfson, The Iowa Law Review

[image] (pdf) (Frederick Moore Vinson Collection, University of Kentucky)

June 30, 1950

Sixteenth Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

(Government Records)

• Part 1 [image] (pdf)
• Part 2 [image] (pdf)

September 21, 1950

The Investor Looks at Accounting - Address of SEC Chairman Harry McDonald to Annual Reports Forum, University of Michigan

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

October 3, 1950

Financial Statements: The Bridge between Disclosure and Information - Address by SEC Commissioner Edward McCormick to American Institute of Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

October 3, 1950

The Concept of Independence in Accounting - Address of SEC Vice-Chairman Donald Cook to American Institute of Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

October 4, 1950

Deficiencies in the Presentation of Information required by Form X-17A-5, Uniform Questionnaire for Broker-Dealers - Address by Michael LaPadula, SEC Assistant Chief Accountant to American Institute of Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

October 20, 1950

The Accountant's Language: The World's Business - Address by SEC Chairman Harry McDonald to Certified Public Accountants Association of Ontario

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

November 1950

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

January 11-12, 1951

Letters to Associate Justice Harold M. Burton from fellow Jusices in agreement with Niagara Hudson Power Corporation and SEC v. M. Victor Leventritt

[image] (pdf) (Harold H. Burton Papers, courtesy of Library of Congress)

January 11, 1951

Note from Chief Justice Fred Vinson to Justice Harold H. Burton in support of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. v. Leventritt and SEC v. Leventritt

[image] (pdf) (Harold H. Burton Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

January 11, 1951

Note from Justice Sherman Minton to Justice Harold Burton in support of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. v. Leventritt and SEC v. Leventritt

[transcript] (pdf) (Harold H. Burton Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

January 12, 1951

Note from Justice Stanley Reed to Justice Harold H. Burton in support of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. v. Leventritt

[image] (pdf) (Harold H. Burton Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

January 12, 1951

Note from Justice Tom C. Clark to Justice Harold H. Burton in support of Niagara Hudson Power Corp. v. Leventritt and SEC v. Leventritt

[image] (pdf) (Harold H. Burton Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

January 15, 1951

Memo to the SEC Chairman on Canadian situation

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

February 27, 1951

Letter from Japanese Securities Mission to SEC Chairman Harry A. McDonald

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

March 5, 1951

Letter from Walter C. Louchheim, Jr., SEC Foreign Economic Adviser to Arthur S. Blaser, Jr., U.S. Treasury with re-draft of memo on February 6, 1951 meeting with Mr. Christelow and SEC officials re certain problems on the British holdings of U.S. corporate

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

March 26, 1951

Letter from Carmen Blough, American Institute of Accountants Director of Research to members of AIA Committee on Accounting Procedure on pension plans

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

March 30, 1951

Letter from Carmen Blough, American Institute of Accountants Director of Research to members of AIA Committee on Accounting Procedure on problems in connection with consolidated and parent company statements

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

March 30, 1951

Letter from Richard B. McEntire to John T. Callahan, with March 22, 1951 article from "The Northern Miner"

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

April 2, 1951

Letter from Carman Blough with research draft of Accounting for Stock Dividends and Earnings of Subsidiaries by a Parent Company

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)

April 10, 1951

Memo from SEC Secretary Orval L. DuBois to Anthon Lund and Walter C. Louchheim, Jr. on British government holdings of securities of United States issuers

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

May 1951

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

June 30, 1951

Seventeenth Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

(Government Records)

• Part 1 [image] (pdf)
• Part 2 [image] (pdf)

August 6, 1951

Letter from Chief Justice Fred Vinson to Justice Sherman Minton

[transcript] (pdf) (Frederick Moore Vinson Collection, University of Kentucky)

August 23-25, 1951

"What are Accounting Principles?," by Earle C. King, SEC Chief Accountant before the Graduate Study Conference, Stanford University

[transcript] (pdf) (Government Records)

September 1951

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

September 21, 1951

SEC List of Securities of Canadian Issuers distributed in the U.S. in violation of the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

November 9, 1951

Supplement No. 1 to List of Canadian Issuers

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

December 1951

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

1952

NASD Annual Report

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

January 15, 1952

Supplement No. 2 to List of Canadian Issuers

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

May 1, 1952

Supplement No. 3 to List of Canadian Issuers

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

June 30, 1952

Eighteenth Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

(Government Records)

• Part 1 [image] (pdf)
• Part 2 [image] (pdf)

July 1952

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

July 10, 1952

Letter from SEC Chairman Donald C. Cook to Joseph P. McMurray, Senate Committee on Banking and Currency, regarding S.3427

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

October 8, 1952

"Professional Ethics as Viewed by the Securities and Exchange Commission," Address of Earle C. King, SEC Chief Accountant before the Annual Meeting of the American Institute of Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (Government Records)

October 20, 1952

Supplement No. 4 to List of Canadian Issuers

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

November 1952

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

1953

A Random Thought on the Segregation Cases - Justice Wiley Rutledge

[transcript] (pdf) (Robert H. Jackson Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

1953

Accounting Terminology Bulletins Number 1 - Review and Resume

[image] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

1953

NASD Annual Report

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

March 1953

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

March 11, 1953

"The Accounting Profession and the Investor," Address of Earle C. King, SEC Chief Accountant before the District of Columbia Chapter of the American Society of Women Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (Government Records)

June 1, 1953

Letter from Justice Thomas Clark to Chief Justice Fred M. Vinson on SEC v. Ralston-Purina

[image] (pdf) (Frederick Moore Vinson Collections, courtesy University of Kentucky)

June 3, 1953

Letter from Justice Harold Burton to Justice Tom Clark on dissent in SEC v. Ralston Purina

[transcript] (pdf) (Frederick Moore Vinson Collection, University of Kentucky)

June 30, 1953

Nineteenth Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

July 1953

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

July 3, 1953

Report on Debt Agreements with the Federal Republic of Germany to the U.S. Senate

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

September 28, 1953

Memorandum to all SEC regional administrators from SEC Chairman Ralph H. Demmler on cooperation with state securities administrators

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Philip Feigin)

October 15, 1953

Memo from Walter C. Louchheim, Jr., Foreign Economic Adviser to SEC Chairman Ralph H. Demmler on unfinished business

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

December 1953

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

December 5, 1953

Notes from Justice William O. Douglas on General Protective Committee v. SEC

[transcript] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 18, 1953

Note from Justice Felix Frankfurter to Justice William Douglas on opinion in General Protective Committee v. SEC

[transcript] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 21, 1953

Note from Justice Harold H. Burton to Justice William O. Douglas in support of opinion in General Protective Committee v. SEC

[image] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 22, 1953

Note from Justice Hugo Black to Justice William Douglas in support of opinion in General Protective Committee v. SEC

[transcript] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

December 30, 1953

Note from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Justice William O. Douglas in support of opinion in General Protective Committee v. SEC

[image] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

1954

NASD Annual Report

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

1954

Securities Acts, Amendments (Public Law No. 83-577); Sections 2(a)(30), 24 of ICA Amended

[document] (PDF) (Government Records)

1954 to present

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Executive Directors

[document] (pdf) (Government Records.)

January 11, 1954

SEC Release on trading in German securities and adoption of Rule X-15C2-3

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

February 18, 1954

Letter from Manuel Cohen, SEC to Judson C. Jones, State Department with translation of letter from Dr. Fechner to SEC Chairman Demmler

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

March 22, 1954

Providing Funds for Our Enterprises by the Issue of Securities - Address by SEC Chairman Ralph Demmler to Controllers Institute of America

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

March 29, 1954

Memo from SEC Chairman Ralph H. Demmler to Byron D. Woodside, Corporation Finance and Anthon H. Lund, Trading and Exchanges on validation board for German dollar bonds

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

April 1954

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

May 29, 1954

Protest from Justice William Douglas to Justice Felix Frankfurter

[transcript] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

June 15, 1954

Letter from Praxedes Reina Hermosillo, Comision Nacional de Valores to SEC Chairman Ralph H. Demmler

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

June 30, 1954

Twentieth Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

July 1954

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

August 31, 1954

Memo of SEC Conference in the Office of O.E. Lennox, Chairman, Ontario Securities Commission, in Toronto

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

September 7, 1954

Letter from O.E. Lennox, Ontario Securities Commission to SEC Chairman Ralph Demmler

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

October 7, 1954

Memo from SEC Commissioners Clarence H. Adams and J. Sinclair Armstrong to the Commission and the Division of Corporation Finance on Canadian securities

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

October 16, 1954

The Role of Accounting in the Regulation of the Issue and Marketing of Securities in the United States - Address by SEC Chairman Ralph Demmler to American Institute of Accountants

[transcript] (pdf) (AICPA Collection, University of Mississippi)

October 18, 1954

Memo to the SEC Commission from the Division of Corporate Regulation on Ampal-American Israel Corporation

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

November 2, 1954

Report to Robert A. McDowell from SEC Branch 3 of conference with Ampal-American Israel Corporation

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

November 12, 1954

Memo from Lawrence M. Greene to Robert A. McDowell on Ampal-American Israel Corporation

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

November 16, 1954

Release from the Ontario Securities Commission

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

November 17, 1954

Despatch from the Consulate General, Toronto to the Department of State on Ontario Securities Commission

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

November 24, 1954

Memo from W. Gomer Krise to SEC Commissioner Adams on Chairman Lennox's November 16, 1954 release

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

December 1954

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

December 1954

NASD News - Special Insert

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

December 8, 1954

Memo from Ralph Demmler to Byron Woodside on Foreign Bondholders Protective Council, Inc.

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

1955

NASD Annual Report

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

1955 (undated)

Statement of Securities and Exchange Commission Regarding Illegal Sales of Canadian Securities

[image] (pdf) (Government Records)

February 12, 1955

Notes from Justice William O. Douglas on SEC v. Drexel

[transcript] (pdf) (William O. Douglas Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

February 16, 1955

Letter from Francis J. Purcell, SEC New York Regional Administrator, to Edward T. Tait, Executive Assistant to the Chairman, on Canadian securities

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

February 21, 1955

Memo from the SEC Staff to Chairman Demmler on new proposed Quebec Securities Act

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)

February 21, 1955

S.Res. 59 - Resolution to make a study of the issuance of uranium mining stocks, by Mr. Chavez, to the U.S. Senate, 84th Congress, 1st Session

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration)