Liquor Industry: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-eighth Congress, First[-second] Session ...

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Page 3 - The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee under this resolution, which shall not exceed $10,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee.
Page 3 - ... and to make such expenditures as it deems advisable. The cost of stenographic services to report such hearings shall not be in excess of 25 cents per hundred words. The expenses of the committee, which shall not exceed $5,000, shall be paid from the contingent fund of the Senate upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the committee.
Page 3 - Congress, to employ such clerical and other assistants, to require by subpena or otherwise the attendance of such witnesses and the production of such books, papers, and documents, to administer such oaths, to take such testimony, and to make such expenditures, as it deems advisable.
Page 9 - Whoever shall order, purchase, or cause intoxicating liquors to be transported in interstate commerce, except for scientific, sacramental, medicinal, and mechanical purposes, into any State or Territory the laws of which State or Territory prohibit the manufacture or sale therein of intoxicating liquors for beverage purposes...
Page 452 - Issuance of this amendment has been issued simultaneously herewith and filed with the Division of the Federal Register. Maximum Price Regulation No. 167 Is amended in the following respects : 1. Section 1337.40 (a) (5) is added to read as follows : (5) "Second quality yarn...
Page 3 - For the purposes of this resolution the committee, or any duly authorized subcommittee thereof, is authorized to hold such hearings...
Page 8 - Scotch whisky is a distinctive product of Scotland, manufactured in Scotland in compliance with the laws of Great Britain regulating the manufacture of Scotch whisky for consumption in Great Britain, and containing no distilled spirits less than 3 years old: Provided, That if in fact such product as so manufactured is a mixture of distilled spirits, such mixture is "Blended Scotch whisky
Page 450 - Administrator the maximum prices established by this regulation are and will be generally fair and equitable and will effectuate the purposes of the Emergency Price Control Act of 1942, as amended.
Page 214 - The committee will rise until 1:30. (Whereupon, at 12:40 pm, the committee recessed until 1:30 pm — of the same day.) AFTERNOON SESSION (The hearing was resumed at 1:30 pm, pursuant to recess.) TESTIMONY OF ALFRED E.
Page 5 - Act, that is to say, its purpose was to prevent the immunity characteristic of interstate commerce from being used to permit the receipt of liquor through such commerce in States contrary to their laws, and thus in effect afford a means by subterfuge and indirection to set such laws at naught.