AGRICULTURE ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION (Food and Drug GSA CONSUMER PRODUCT INFORMATION CENTER Printed for the use of the Committee on Appropriations 62-271 O U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE WASHINGTON: 1971 JAMIE L. WHITTEN, Mississippi ROBERT N. GIAIMO, Connecticut EDWARD J. PATTEN, New Jersey DAVID PRYOR, Arkansas FRANK E. EVANS, Colorado DAVID R. OBEY, Wisconsin EDWARD R. ROYBAL, California WILLIAM D. HATHAWAY, Maine NICK GALIFIANAKIS, North Carolina LOUIS STOKES, Ohio J. EDWARD ROUSH, Indiana K. GUNN MCKAY, Utah FRANK T. BOW, Ohio CHARLES R. JONAS, North Carolina DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE-ENVIRONMENTAL AND CONSUMER PROTECTION APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1972 TUESDAY, APRIL 20, 1971. FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION WITNESSES MILES W. KIRKPATRICK, CHAIRMAN PAUL RAND DIXON, COMMISSIONER MARY GARDINER JONES, COMMISSIONER DAVID S. DENNISON, COMMISSIONER BASIL J. MEZINES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR JOSEPH MARTIN, GENERAL COUNSEL LAWRENCE G. MEYER, DIRECTOR, OFFICE OF POLICY PLANNING AND EVALUATION ALAN S. WARD, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF COMPETITION ROBERT PITOFSKY, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF CONSUMER PROTECTION JOHN A. DELANEY, ASSISTANT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR FOR ADMINISTRATION H. MICHAEL MANN, DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF ECONOMICS WILLIAM D. YANCEY, CHIEF, DIVISION OF BUDGET AND FINANCE INTRODUCTION Mr. WHITTEN. Gentlemen, the committee will come to order. We are glad indeed to have you and your associates with us, Mr. Kirkpatrick. We will be glad to have you introduce them for the record and carry a biographical sketch in the record. Although you have been before other subcommittees, I think it would be appropriate to insert the biographies at this point. Since it is mighty embarrassing to read them to them in their presence, we can insert them in the record and they will read them at their pleasure. Mr. KIRKPATRICK. Yes, sir. (The biographical sketches follow :) (1) BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MILES W. KIRKPATRICK Miles W. Kirkpatrick was appointed Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on September 15, 1970. He succeeded Caspar W. Weinberger, whose unexpired term on the Commission he will fill (until September 25, 1976). Mr. Kirkpatrick was born June 1, 1918, in Easton, Pennsylvania. He received his A.B. degree from Princeton University in 1940 and his LL.B degree (in absentia) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1943. Mr. Kirkpatrick's Army service was first with the 11th Armored Division and later with the Army Air Corps. Following Army service Mr. Kirkpatrick joined the law office of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia, and continued this affiliation until his appointment to the Federal Trade Commission. He was a partner in the firm for many years. Mr. Kirkpatrick is a member of the American, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia bar associations, the Union League Club and the Princeton Club. He was chairman of the Antitrust Section of the American Bar Association in 1968-1969 and headed the ABA Commission to Study the Federal Trade Commission. The ABA Commission's findings were submitted to President Nixon in a report dated September 15, 1969. Mr. Kirkpatrick is married to the former Anne Skerrett, and the Kirkpatricks have three children: Mary, 18, a high school student; Nancy, 21, who attends the University of Colorado, and William, 22, now serving in the Army in Alabama. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF PAUL RAND DIXON Paul Rand Dixon was appointed Commissioner and Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission on March 21, 1961, for a term expiring on September 25, 1967. He was reappointed on September 25, 1967, for a full seven-year term. He served as Chairman until January 1, 1970. A Democrat, Mr. Dixon was born September 29, 1913, in Nashville, Tennessee. received an A.B. degree from Vanderbilt University in 1936 and an LL.B degree from the University of Florida in 1938. He He joined the FTC in July 1938 as a trial attorney and subsequently engaged in both antimonoply and antideceptive practice work. In February 1957 he joined the Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee as Counsel and Staff Director. He assisted the Subcommittee in developing and focusing the attention of Congress and the public on important problems in the field of restraints of trade, including administered prices in many major industries. On March 21, 1961, he rejoined the FTC as Commissioner and Chairman. Mr. Dixon served with the U.S. Navy from 1942 to 1945 and participated in the occupation of Africa and the invasion of Sicily. Entitled to wear three battle stars, he is a Lieutenant Commander, USNR(Ret.). He is a member of American and Federal Bar Associations, Judicial Bars of State of Florida and State of Tennessee, National Lawyers Club, Honorary member of Phi Delta Phi (International Legal Fraternity), Executive Advisory Council, Junior Achievement Program of Washington, D.C., Masonic Lodge, Alpha Tau Omega, Vanderbilt University Alumni Association, Washington, D.C., (President, 1954-1955) and Tennessee State Society, Washington, D.C., (President, 1958-1959, and Executive Board, 1960, 1961). Past Affiliations: President's Committee on Consumer Interest, Committee of Experts on Restrictive Business Practices of Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development, Administrative Conference of the United States and Council of Section of Antitrust Law, American Bar Association. Mr. Dixon is married to the former Doris Busby and they have two sons, David Leslie and Paul Randall, Jr. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF A. EVERETTE MACINTYRE Mr. MacIntyre was appointed to the Federal Trade Commission on September 26, 1961. In 1968 he was reappointed for another seven-year term. A Democrat, Commissioner MacIntyre was born February 3, 1901, in Alamance County, North Carolina. He received an A.B. degree from the University of North Carolina where he majored in economics. He earned an LL.B. degree from the George Washington University Law School and later pursued graduate studies in economics and political science. Mr. MacIntyre joined the legal staff of the Federal Trade Commission in 1930. During the next 25 years he served as attorney examiner, `review attorney, senior attorney, principal attorney, and Chief of the Division of Antitrust Trials in the Bureau of Litigation until 1954; then as Legal Adviser on Antimonopoly Cases until 1955. He also served as a member of the FTC Planning Council and of its Administrative Procedure Committee. In 1935 he served as Chief Counsel (on loan from the FTC) to a special House investigating committee in the conduct of an investigation which produced much of the evidence out of which the Robinson-Patman Act developed. In 1955 he resigned from the FTC to accept the position of Staff Director and General Counsel of the House Select Committee on Small Business. In this capacity he directed staff studies into a wide range of problems affecting trade and commerce. Commissioner MacIntyre is admitted to the bars of North Carolina, District of Columbia, Virginia and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Federal Bar Association, American Bar Association(as well as its Antitrust Section), American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, Academy of Political Sciences (life member), National Lawyers Club, Cosmos Club and the Congressional Country Club. Mr. MacIntyre is married to the former Reita Jane Lyons and they have one son: Miles Everette. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF MARY GARDINER JONES Miss Jones was appointed a Federal Trade Commissioner on October 29, 1964. She was reappointed to the Commission for a full seven-year term on September 26, 1966. Born December 10, 1920, in New York City, Miss Jones received her B.A. degree from Wellesley College in 1943 and her LL.B. degree from the Yale University Law School in 1948 and was elected to the Order of the Coif, After graduation from Yale Law School, Miss Jones joined Donovan, Leisure, Newton & Irvine, a New York law firm, in 1953 she joined the New York Office of the Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, and in 1961 the law firm of Webster, Sheffield, Fleischmann, Hitchcock & Chrystie in New York City where she engaged exclusively in trial and antitrust work. She has contributed articles to various legal, business and financial periodicals, including Law and Computer Technology, the AAUW Journal (of the American Association of University Women), Nation's Business, Industrial Banker and the George Washington Law Review. She is admitted to the bare of New York, the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court. Miss Jones is a member of the National Committee for Equal Opportunity in Business of the National Business League, the Council on Community Affairs in D.C. of the Federal Bar Association, and an adjunct member of the Inter-Disciplinary Council on Communication, affiliated with the Smithsonian Institution. Also, she is a member of the Committee on Scientific and Technical Information of the Federal Council for Science and Technology. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH OF DAVID S. DENNISON, JR. David S. Dennison, Jr., was appointed a Federal Trade Commissioner on October 19, 1970 for a term expiring on September 25, 1977. Born July 29, 1918 in Poland, Ohio, Mr. Dennison received an A.B. degree from Williams College in 1940, majoring in government and political science. He obtained an LL.B. degree from the Western Reserve University School of Law in 1945 and was elected to the Order of the Coif. During 1942 and 1943, Mr. Dennison was a volunteer ambulance driver with the American Field Service, serving in Libya and North Africa. |