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GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS
Medina, Harold R. The Corrected Opinion of Harold R. Medina, United States Circuit fudge, in United States of America, Plaintiff, v. Henry S. Morgan, Harold Stanley, et al, Defendants. New York: Record Press, Inc., 1954.
U.K. Parliament. Committee to Review the Functioning of Financial Institutions [Wilson Committee]. Transcript of the Oral Evidence Given by the Accepting Houses Committee. December 6, 1977.
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U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking and Currency. Stock Exchange Practices: Hearings. 72nd Cong., 1933–34.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs. Legislation Concerning Foreign Investment and the Arab Boycott: Hearings before the Subcommittee on International Finance. 94th Cong., 1st sess., 1975.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. New York City Fiscal Crisis: Hearings. 94th Cong. 1st sess., 1975.
U.S. Congress. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Investigation of Railroads, Holding Companies, and Affiliated Companies: Hearings, 74th Cong., 2d Sess., 1937.
U.S. Congress. Senate. Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry. World War Financing and U.S. Industrial Expansion 1914–15. Part 25, Hearings. 74th Cong., 1936.
U.S. Congress. Temporary National Economic Committee. Investigation of Concentration of Economic Power: Hearings. 76th Cong., 2nd sess., part 22, 1939–41.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The Financial Collapse of the Penn Central Company. Staff Report. Presented to the Special Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Hon. Harley O. Staggers, chairman, August 1972.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. In the Matter of Richard Whitney, Edwin D. Morgan, Jr., and Others. Vol. 1, Report on Investigation.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Major Issues Confronting the Nation’s Financial Institutions and Markets in the 1980s: Transcript of an SEC Conference at the Sheraton Hotel in Washington, DC, October 7 and 8, 1982. Chicago: Commerce Clearing House Inc., 1982.
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Official Transcript of Proceedings before the SEC in the Matter of Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. Examination of Longstreet Hinton in New York, July 16, 1964.
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