Federal Licensing of Corporations: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, First[-third] Session, on S. 10, a Bill to Regulate Interstate and Foreign Commerce by Prescribing the Conditions Under which Corporations May Engage Or May be Formed to Engage in Such Commerce, to Provide for and Define Additional Powers and Duties of the Federal Trade Commission, to Assist the Several States in Improving Labor Conditions and Enlarging Purchasing Power for Goods Sold in Such Commerce, and for Other Purposes. January 25 to 29 1937

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Considers legislation to enlarge FTC membership and extend Commission authority to require licenses of all corporations involved in interstate commerce.

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Page 3 - Any commissioner may be removed by the President for .inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office.
Page 6 - Until a transcript of the record In such hearing shall have been filed In a circuit court of appeals of the United States, as hereinafter provided, the commission may at any time, upon such notice and in such manner as it shall deem proper, modify or set aside. In whole or In part, any report or any order made or issued by it under this section.
Page 18 - To divide, withdraw, or in any manner pay to the stockholders, or any of them, any part of the capital stock of the corporation ; or to reduce such capital stock without the consent of the legislature ; or 3.
Page 351 - ... by the Supreme Court of the United States upon writ of certiorari or certification as provided in sections 239 and 240 of the Judicial Code, as amended (USC, title 28, sees. 346 and 347).
Page 8 - Commission, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of him, may tend to incriminate him or subject him to a penalty or forfeiture...
Page 350 - Any person, partnership, or corporation may make application, and upon good cause shown may be allowed by the Commission to intervene and appear in said proceeding by counsel or in person.
Page 351 - Board, its member, agent, or agency, there to produce evidence if so ordered, or there to give testimony touching the matter under investigation or in question ; and any failure to obey such order of the court may be punished by said court as a contempt thereof.
Page 352 - Individual shall be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture for or on account of any transaction, matter, or thing concerning which he Is compelled, after having claimed his privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, except that such individual so testifying shall not be exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.
Page 6 - Board as to the facts, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive. If either party shall apply to the court for leave to adduce additional evidence and shall show to the satisfaction of the court that such additional evidence is material and that there were reasonable grounds for the failure to adduce such evidence in the hearing before the...
Page 7 - Commission may modify its findings as to the facts, or make new findings, by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and it shall file such modified or new findings, which, if supported by evidence, shall be conclusive, and its recommendation, if any, for the modification or setting aside of its original order, with the return of such additional evidence.