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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general the Robinson-Patman Act puts the beneficiaries of discrimination on the same footing as the donors; transfers the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense; attempts to substitute specific prohibitions for the generalities on price discrimination contained in the old anti-trust laws...
Administration of the Robinson-Patman Act is in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, custodian of the Clayton Act which the new law amends.* Hampered by lack of funds, the Commission has been desperately trying to set up administrative machinery for a measure which conceivably might require an NRA staff to enforce it. Not until last week did the Commission get around to cracking down on five corporations in three complaints affecting two homely commodities...
Ward's President Sewell Lee Avery had no comment to make on his end of the rug case but President Benjamin H. Roberts of Bird & Son declared: "The transaction involved in this case was made prior to the passage of the Robinson-Patman act. . . . Bird . . . has exercised great vigilance in endeavoring to observe this law and avoid any controversy. The issue in the case is of such a character as to probably clarify some doubtful provisions of this...
...most confusing features of the Robinson-Patman Act is a separate criminal section which is inconsistent with the rest of the law and administered by the Department of Justice...
Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...