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September 5, 1958

Memo from Manuel Cohen to Sharon Clay Risk, Division of Corporation Finance on merit cash award for Mollie Zion

[transcript] (pdf) (Courtesy of the estate of Mollie B. Zion)

September 15, 1958

The Canadian Accounting Profession and the S.E.C. - Address by Andrew Barr, SEC Chief Accountant to Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants

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

September 26, 1958

Notes on NASD v. VALIC and SEC v. VALIC

[transcript] (pdf) (Earl Warren Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

October 15, 1958

Memo from Thomas Meeker to SEC Chairman Edward Gadsby on Commission endorsement of the Uniform Securities Act

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

November 8, 1958

The Living Law - Speech of Justice Stanley Reed at the Columbia Law School Centennial Dinner

[image] (pdf) (Stanley Forman Reed Collections, courtesy University of Kentucky)

November 30, 1958

History of NASD

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

December 3, 1958

New York State Attorney General Release on bar of Lincoln Securities Corporation in sale of stock of Shoreland Mines, Ltd.

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

1959

Alaska Omnibus Act (Public Law No. 86-70); Section 202(a) of IAA amended; Sections 2(a)(37), 6(a)(1) of ICA amended

[document] (pdf) (Government Records)

Late 1950s

Draft letter from U.S. Senator J. Allen Frear, Jr. on SEC wish to amend existing U.S.-Canada extradition treaty to cover modern securities fraud techniques

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

1959

NASD Annual Report

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

1959

SEC Silver Anniversary Celebration Program

[document] (pdf) (Courtesy of Francis Trainor)

1959

Memo from Frederick Moss and Eugene Rotberg to Byron Woodside

[document] (pdf) (Courtesy of Paul Gonson)

January 21, 1959

Memorandum on NASD v. VALIC and SEC v. VALIC

[transcript] (pdf) (Earl Warren Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

February 13, 1959

New York State Attorney General Release on "get rich quick scheme" of Lowell Messer

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

February 14, 1959

Memorandum from Justice William O. Douglas on SEC v. Variable Annuity Life Insurance Company and The Equity Annuity Life Insurance Company, and on NASD v. VALIC

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

February 16, 1959

Note from Chief Justice Earl Warren to Justice William O. Douglas in support of SEC v. VALIC

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

February 17, 1959

Notice to dissent from Justice John M. Harlan on SEC v. VALIC

[image] (pdf) (Earl Warren Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

March 5, 1959

Note from Justice William Brennan to Justice William O. Douglas on VALIC

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

March 14, 1959

Letter from Justice William Douglas to Justice William Brennan on VALIC

[image] (pdf) (William J. Brennan, Jr. Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

March 14, 1959

Letter from Justice William Douglas to Justice William Brennan with proposed revisions for VALIC

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

March 16, 1959

Note from Justice William Brennan to Justice William O. Douglas on concurrence in VALIC

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

March 18, 1959

Letter from Henry H. Pierce, Jr., Connecticut Bank Commissioner, to Paul Windels, Jr. regarding Connecticut Bill No. 2715

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

March 18, 1959

Note from Justice William Douglas to Justice John Harlan on Justice Brennan joining in concurrence on VALIC

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

March 19, 1959

New York State Attorney General Release on ban on Alaska Building Supply & Equipment Rental Corporation

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

March 21, 1959

Notice to dissent from Justice Tom C. Clark on SEC v. VALIC

[image] (pdf) (Earl Warren Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

March 28, 1959

Letter from Thomas Meeker to Henry H. Pierce, Jr., Connecticut Bank Commissioner

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

April 1959

Appalachian Power Company, et al against American Institute of CPAs - United States District Court for the Southern District of New York; Order to show cause

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

April 1959

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

April 1959

NASD News - Special Insert

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

April 11, 1959

Remarks of Justice William Brennan at Harvard Law Review banquet

[transcript] (pdf) (Earl Warren Papers, courtesy Library of Congress)

April 24, 1959

Public Interest in Constitutional Interpretations - Address by Justice Stanley Reed at University of Texas School of Law

[image] (pdf) (Stanley Forman Reed Collections, courtesy University of Kentucky)

May 1959

Appalachian Power Company, et al against American Institute of CPAs - United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; Memorandum on behalf of appellees in opposition to appeallants' motion for injunction pending appeal

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

May 21, 1959

The Independent Accountant and the SEC - Address by Andrew Barr, SEC Chief Accountant to 21st Annual Ohio State University Institute on Accounting

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

June 3, 1959

New York State Attorney General Release on charges against Frank Canizio and Viola Kelly

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

June 11, 1959

Letter to David Mearns, Library of Congress on preserving court papers of Associate Justice Pierce Butler

[transcript] (pdf) (With permission of the Pierce Butler Family Papers, Minnesota Historical Society)

June 12, 1959

Report by SEC Executive Director and General Counsel on cooperation by SEC employees with state governments in connection with state securities legislation

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

June 27, 1959

Disclosure in Theory and Practice - Address by Andrew Barr, SEC Chief Accountant to Certified Public Accountants of the Pacific Northwest

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

June 30, 1959

25th Annual Report of the Securities and Exchange Commission

(Government Records)

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

July 1959

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)

July 2, 1959

New York State Attorney General Release on extradition request by Ontario Securities Commission

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

July 24, 1959

New York State Attorney General Release on charges against Jack Kissel and K. Medann & Company, Inc.

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy of Orestes Mihaly)

September 21, 1959

Memo of Closed "SEC" Session at the Convention of the North American Securities Administrators

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

October 8, 1959

The Lawyer in Government Service - Address by Justice Stanley Reed at University of Chicago Law School

[image] (pdf) (Stanley Forman Reed Collections, courtesy University of Kentucky)

October 15, 1959

The Role of the Accountant in the Restoration and Maintenance of Public Confidence in the Capital Formation Process - Address by SEC Commissioner James Sargent to Hagerstown Chapter, National Association of Accountants

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

November 11, 1959

Accounting - Changing Patterns: The Impact of Regulatory Agencies - Address by Andrew Barr, SEC Chief Accountant

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

December 1959

NASD News

[image] (pdf) (Courtesy FINRA)