Wednesday, June 6, 1934

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The Headlines

MARGIN PROVISIONS OF EXCHANGE BILL SEEN AS MODERATE; At Present Price of Stocks Law Gives More Latitude Than Brokers' Own Rules. LOANS OF 75% POSSIBLE Opponents Now View Measure as Curb on Pools and Unbridled Speculation. MARGIN PROVISIONS SEEN AS MODERATE

Best-selling Sheet Music

Blue Moon

Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart

The must-have

Sorry! (Board Game)

On This Day

• New Deal: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 into law, establishing the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

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You Share a Birthday With

• Alexander Pushkin (1799)
• Diego Velázquez (1599)
• Thomas Mann (1875)
• Sukarno (1901)
• Pierre Corneille (1606)

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Tech Check

Cat's Eye Road Studs, Telex & Hammond Organ.

Cost of Living (1930)