Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First[-fourth] Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 - Agriculture |
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... fact , if supported by evidence , are conclusive . Section 206 also deals with the procedure and provides a fine of $ 10,000 for failure to comply with an order sustained by the court . Section 207 provides that every packer shall keep ...
... fact , if supported by evidence , are conclusive . Section 206 also deals with the procedure and provides a fine of $ 10,000 for failure to comply with an order sustained by the court . Section 207 provides that every packer shall keep ...
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... facts still remain that there is behind this legislation a long history of combination , apportionment of territory and ... fact that there should be some forum in the stockyards clothed with jurisdiction to deal with the grievances that ...
... facts still remain that there is behind this legislation a long history of combination , apportionment of territory and ... fact that there should be some forum in the stockyards clothed with jurisdiction to deal with the grievances that ...
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... fact that the independents , during the last few years , and particularly during the war , have made very great progress in the volume of their business . I remember that it was the opinion of practically every one of them who appeared ...
... fact that the independents , during the last few years , and particularly during the war , have made very great progress in the volume of their business . I remember that it was the opinion of practically every one of them who appeared ...
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... fact that the State of Minnesota now has a provision for the regulation of the stockyards in that State . Under that law the stockyards and traders and commission men are subject to the jurisdiction of the Railway and Warehouse ...
... fact that the State of Minnesota now has a provision for the regulation of the stockyards in that State . Under that law the stockyards and traders and commission men are subject to the jurisdiction of the Railway and Warehouse ...
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... fact after it has become an accomplished fact . We have not undertaken to deal with a monopoly until after a thing has become a monopoly , and then we have sought to divide it into its constituent parts and compel those parts to compete ...
... fact after it has become an accomplished fact . We have not undertaken to deal with a monopoly until after a thing has become a monopoly , and then we have sought to divide it into its constituent parts and compel those parts to compete ...
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Armour Armour & Co ASWELL Big Five big packers cattle cent CHAIRMAN charge CLARKE committee competition complaint Congress consumer cost court CREIGH Cudahy Cudahy Packing Co dealer decree DURAND EYCK fact farmers Federal Trade Commission filed furnish gentlemen GERNERD Government handle Haugen bill hearing Heney hogs HORMEL interest Interstate Commerce Commission investigation JONES KINCHELOE legislation letter LIGHTFOOT live stock market agency MARSH matter MCLAUGHLIN of Nebraska meat Morris & Co NASH packing business packing industry person practice profit provisions PURNELL question railroads reason refrigerator cars regulation retail RYAN Secretary of Agriculture Secretary WALLACE sell Senate ship shipment shippers slaughter small packer SMITH South St statement stockyard owner Swift Swift & Co TALIAFERRO TEN EYCK thing TINCHER tion to-day unfair VEEDER violation VOIGT WILSON yards
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Page 535 - Secretary may modify his findings as to the facts, or make new findings, by reason of the additional evidence so taken, and he shall file such modified or new findings and his recommendation, if any, for the modification or setting aside of his original order, with the return of such additional evidence.
Page 441 - States a civil penalty of not more than $5,000 for each violation, which shall accrue to the United States and may be recovered in a civil action brought by the United States.
Page 540 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 538 - ... it shall be the duty of the commission to investigate the matters complained of in such manner and by such means as it shall deem proper.
Page 519 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer...
Page 443 - An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes...
Page 410 - To gather and compile information concerning, and to investigate from time to time the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of any corporation engaged in commerce, excepting banks and common carriers subject to the act to regulate commerce, and its relation to other corporations and to individuals, associations, and partnerships.
Page 514 - If upon such hearing the Commission shall be of the opinion that the method of competition or the act or practice in question is prohibited by this Act, it shall make a report in writing in which it shall state its findings as to the facts...
Page 530 - When cattle are sent for sale from a place in one state, with the expectation that they will end their transit after purchase in another, and when, in effect they do so, with only the interruption necessary to find a purchaser at the stock yards, and when this is a typical, constantly recurring course, the current thus existing is a current of commerce among the states, and the purchase of the cattle is a part and incident of such commerce.
Page 528 - unfair method of competition" are not defined by the statute and their exact meaning is in dispute. It is for the courts, not the Commission, ultimately to determine as matter of law what they include. They are clearly inapplicable to practices . never heretofore regarded as opposed to good morals because characterized by deception, bad faith, fraud or oppression, or as against public policy because of their dangerous tendency unduly to hinder competition...