Word: acted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pushed into something about which they knew very little. And among some the conviction was growing that after all uniform Federal regulation for industry as a whole might be better than a hodge-podge of State laws or special-interest Federal laws like the Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act aimed directly at retailing...
...Purchased." For other investment bankers as well as Colonel Pope, 1936 was a fine year. Total corporate financing, reported the Commercial & Financial Chronicle, amounted to $4,600,000,000, over twice the figure for the year before and about twelve times the total for 1933 when the Securities Act went into effect. Most of it was refunding -swapping new money for old-but the volume of fresh capital was above $1,000,000,000 for the first time since...
...articles on the Robinson-Patman Act and an article dealing with the Social Security Act are included. The first essay on the Robinson Act, by Edmund P. Learned, associate professor of Marketing, and Nathan Isaacs, professor of Business Law, examines the legal questions involved in the act, and its effects of pricing, and sales policies...
...second Robinson-Patman article, by Melvin T. Copeland, professor of Marketing deals with the act from an administrative standpoint, and emphasizes the necessity of careful enforcement, so as to submerge the politically minded features of the Act...
...discussion of the Social Security Act, Benjamin M. Selekman, lecturer on Urban Industrial Problems, summarizes the Act, and considers the workability of its various provisions. Particular emphasis is laid on the financing problems that occur under the Act, and provision for care of the unemployed...