Legislation Affecting Corporate Mergers: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 170 on S. 3341, a Bill to Amend the Clayton Act to Prohibit Certain Bank Mergers and Provide for More Effective Enforcement Thereof, and for Other Purposes; S. 3424, a Bill to Amend the Clayton Act, as Amended, by Requiring Prior Notification of Certain Corporate Merger; H.R. 9424, an Act to Amend the Clayton Act, as Amended,by Requiring Prior Notification of Corporate Mergers... |
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Page vii
... considered by this subcom- mittee in the hearings beginning today warrants the most careful consid- eration . Under our system of promoting the maximum degree of freedom of business enterprise , added business regulation must not be ...
... considered by this subcom- mittee in the hearings beginning today warrants the most careful consid- eration . Under our system of promoting the maximum degree of freedom of business enterprise , added business regulation must not be ...
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... considered to have been unhealthy . From 1940 to the present time the number of individual banks has not changed materially . " Banking procedures have undergone many changes over the past 30 years . Cited some of those changes . Not ...
... considered to have been unhealthy . From 1940 to the present time the number of individual banks has not changed materially . " Banking procedures have undergone many changes over the past 30 years . Cited some of those changes . Not ...
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... considered when they are studying a proposed merger " is the effect upon the soundness of the national banking sys- tem , the effect upon the convenience and needs of the community con- cerned , the effect upon the particular banks ...
... considered when they are studying a proposed merger " is the effect upon the soundness of the national banking sys- tem , the effect upon the convenience and needs of the community con- cerned , the effect upon the particular banks ...
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... considered . Listed some of the competitive factors they study . Denial of approval of a merger by the Comptroller because it would affect competition is , at present , a discretionary right , not a legal right . Mr. Gidney said : " It ...
... considered . Listed some of the competitive factors they study . Denial of approval of a merger by the Comptroller because it would affect competition is , at present , a discretionary right , not a legal right . Mr. Gidney said : " It ...
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... considered ; that a decision for or against a merger should not be based solely on the percentage of market yardstick . Congressman Celler had made the charge that some of their mergers resulted in substantial lessening of competition ...
... considered ; that a decision for or against a merger should not be based solely on the percentage of market yardstick . Congressman Celler had made the charge that some of their mergers resulted in substantial lessening of competition ...
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90 days 90-day waiting period acquiring corporation ALVORD amendment antitrust laws apply approval asset acquisitions Association Attorney authority bank mergers banking agencies BERGSON bill branch banking branches CELLER Chairman Clayton Act committee companies Comptroller Congress consolidations consummated court create a monopoly CROW Department of Justice economic effect enactment exemption Federal Reserve Board Federal Reserve System Federal Trade Commission FRIEDMAN GIDNEY Government GWYNNE industry injunction Interstate Commerce Interstate Commerce Act Interstate Commerce Commission involved Judge Barnes jurisdiction legislation lessen competition lessening of competition loans McHUGH ment merge MILLER Nassau County National Bank notice Number of banks operation paragraph pending percent premerger notification present problem proposed merger provisions public interest railroad regulated require retail food ROTH Senator DIRKSEN Senator O'MAHONEY Senator WATKINS share capital Sherman Act situation statement subcommittee substantial lessening suggested supervisory agencies tion transactions vested violation