Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, First[-fourth] Session...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1922 - Agriculture |
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... future delivery and had imported sugars from Java and from China . We had contracted to import sugars from Java and from Mauritius in very large quantities . We had bought sugars to help the situation here from Belgium , from Holland ...
... future delivery and had imported sugars from Java and from China . We had contracted to import sugars from Java and from Mauritius in very large quantities . We had bought sugars to help the situation here from Belgium , from Holland ...
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... future delivery a part of the first 1,000 tons . The statistics on that sale you will find in full in our brief . We could not sell the second 1,000 tons because it was contracted for so late . A part of the first and all of the second ...
... future delivery a part of the first 1,000 tons . The statistics on that sale you will find in full in our brief . We could not sell the second 1,000 tons because it was contracted for so late . A part of the first and all of the second ...
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... future conduct . Mr. SINCLAIR . It was not a question of their agreeing to it , anyway , because the department might prosecute them or reserve the right to prosecute them under the Lever Act if they took more . Mr. RILEY . That was it ...
... future conduct . Mr. SINCLAIR . It was not a question of their agreeing to it , anyway , because the department might prosecute them or reserve the right to prosecute them under the Lever Act if they took more . Mr. RILEY . That was it ...
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... future ? Mrs. BOGGS . We hope to have it open by the middle or the last of May , but that is financed entirely by private contribution . The CHAIRMAN . Yes ; I understand that . Mrs. BOGGS . And that is only for the sick FOREST LANDS ...
... future ? Mrs. BOGGS . We hope to have it open by the middle or the last of May , but that is financed entirely by private contribution . The CHAIRMAN . Yes ; I understand that . Mrs. BOGGS . And that is only for the sick FOREST LANDS ...
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... future . I think the Department of Agriculture is to be commended upon the fact that they are working out a system of absolute security to the shipper . Now , then , suppose this situation should occur . Suppose your law up there should ...
... future . I think the Department of Agriculture is to be commended upon the fact that they are working out a system of absolute security to the shipper . Now , then , suppose this situation should occur . Suppose your law up there should ...
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Page 71 - An Act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies...
Page 69 - 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 28 - Whatever amounts to more or less constant practice, and threatens to obstruct or unduly to burden the freedom of interstate commerce is within the regulatory power of Congress under the commerce clause, and it is primarily for Congress to consider and decide the fact of the danger and meet it.
Page 96 - 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 69 - ... 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 66 - An Act to create a Federal Trade Commission, to define its powers and duties, and for other purposes...
Page 78 - The authority of Congress extends to every part of interstate commerce, and to every instrumentality or agency by which it is carried on; and the full control by Congress of the subjects committed to its regulation is not to be denied or thwarted by the commingling of interstate and intrastate operations.
Page 72 - If any provision of this act or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the validity of the remainder of the act and of the application of such provision to other persons and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
Page 67 - An act defining butter, also imposing a tax upon and regulating the manufacture, sale, importation, and exportation of oleomargarine...
Page 68 - ... after full hearing, whether completed before or after the rate, fare, charge, classification, regulation, or practice goes into effect, the Commission may make such order with reference thereto as would be proper in a proceeding initiated after it had become effective.