| Title |
Adam M. Duncan, Salt Lake City, Utah, Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Adam M. Duncan, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Duncan, Adam M. |
| Contributor |
Haddard, Mitch |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Duncan, Adam M.--Interviews; Lawyers--Utah; Uranium industry--United States |
| Keywords |
Attorneys |
| Description |
Transcript (32 pages) of an interview by Mitch Haddard with Adam Duncan, on August 4, 1970. From tape number 131 in the Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Duncan, an attorney, was interviewed by Mitch Haddad in Salt Lake City. Subjects: uranium mining industry securities, penny stocks and uranium company shells, types of mining claims, the Gillette, Wyoming "new gold rush," multi-use of federal lands, Charlie Steen, Milton Love (SEC Commissioner), Canyonlands, typical prospector, Stella Dysart, government subsidies, shell game, gambling (32 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
18 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6tm9j6w |
| Topic |
Lawyers; Uranium industry |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054563 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tm9j6w |
| Title |
Page 6 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1054531 |
| OCR Text |
Show ADAM M. DUNCAN Rights, and I still hold that job. Most of my work in the profession has been in securities, that is the public financing of companies, the merging and the consolidation of companies, preparation of articles of incorporation and in the last five, or six years in the actions brought under a section of the Federal Securities Law called Rule 10B5 and this involves stock frauds, and we've brought a number of court actions, and made some, I think, landmark law in the tenth circuit. I've been for the last five years a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Federal Regulation Securities. I'm married and have three children. MH: Now you mentioned that, ah, so you see it from all different sides, both as a legislator and also with the tax commission, and also as a lawyer itself. AD: Yes. MH: Handling primarily securities, and talking of legal aspects of the uranium mining industries when you specify two securities what would probably be one of the largest problems when you deal with uranium securities? AD: We're talking about a historical fact, there is no more uranium boom there. There is currently a penny stock boom, and many of old uranium company shells are being revived. But the uranium boom I think was a unique one time thing. I was tax, training for the tax commission 2 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6tm9j6w/1054531 |
