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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vandenberg, and even such economizers as Senator Glass voting for the bill, the President's veto, already overidden by the House, was rejected 71 to 19, and the bill became law. ¶ Unanimously passed a bill previously approved by the House to repeal Section 213 of the Economy Act of 1933 which aimed to spread work in Depression by requiring that when it became necessary to discharge Federal employes, those who had a husband or wife on the Federal payroll should be the first fired. Aside from loud claims that the law forced Government employes to live...
...functions. 'Like most of the big independent boards and bureaus, FTC exercises all three functions at once. Founded during another reform era - Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom - FTC is charged with 1) prevention °i unfair competition, 2) enforcement of certain sections of the Clayton Anti-Trust Act, including the 1936 amendment known as the Robinson-Patman Act. It also has broad investigatory powers. Most famed FTC investigation was the eight-year probe of public utility holding companies, which netted 84 volumes of evidence and resulted in the Public Utility Act of 1935. Big as it is, touching...
Most significant cases now before FTC are two big anti-trust actions against the cement industry and the window glass makers, and four Robinson-Patman Act cases, notably those involving Standard Brands and Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. FTC's first Robinson-Patman Act cases were closed this week. Dismissed were the complaints filed against Kraft-Phenix Cheese and Bird & Son. Inc. (TIME, Oct. 12). In the Kraft case FTC held that this company's price rating did not lessen or injure competition. In the Bird case, which involved selling floor coverings to Montgomery Ward & Co. for less...
Died. Henry Parker Willis, 62, economist, professor of banking at Columbia University; of heart disease; in Oak Bluffs, Mass. Technical adviser to Virginia Senator Carter Glass, Professor Willis helped draft the Federal Reserve Act, the Banking Act of 1933, the Federal Farm Loan Act...
...chairman of the National Labor Relations Board in 1934, later a member of the short-lived Federal Mediation Board for the steel strike. His decision in the Houde case (TIME, Sept. 10, 1934), ruling that representatives of the majority could bargain for all employes, has since become the Wagner Act's chief Labor weapon. Wisconsin's new law, suggested by Dean Garrison, may well become equally significant in the philosophy of individual indebtedness...