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...week the high courts of two states threw out Fair Trade statutes as unconstitutional. In a case involving the sale of Prestone anti-freeze for $2.97 a gallon (instead of the Fair Trade $3.75), the Arkansas Supreme Court ruled that any law that gives a manufacturer the power to bind all retailers to a fixed price because one retailer has signed an agreement deprives the non-signers of "a valuable property right" (to sell at a reduced price) without due process of law. On the same grounds, the Nebraska Supreme Court ruled that McGraw Electric Co. could not block...
...bring him back to Washington five weeks ago just to "make policy." As coordinator of the foreign economic activities of the U.S., Dodge is supposed to bring about a result almost as difficult and far more inspiring than turning a centipede into a mouse. His objective: to bind together the hundreds of scattered and often contradictory foreign economic activities of the U.S. into an intelligible whole that will make reality of the U.S. economic leadership in the free world...
...agreement on issues, the same grants would mean loss of face to a national representative. Although spokesmen for Moscow now pattern their views on the narrow interests of their particular countries, this minority of bound votes is too small to effect the group's supranational outlook. In seeking to bind all of the delegates to national interests, the United States may be stifling one of the UN's most effective commissions...
There was no great national issue to bind the House races together in a package for either party. Many winners were entirely unprepared for the results, a situation best summed up by a flustered Democrat, Mrs. Martha Griffiths, who won a Detroit seat from the G.O.P. Posing for her election victory picture, she pleaded: "Don't photograph my legs. I didn't have time for stockings...
...most terrible wars in history have had any lesson for mankind, it is that a treaty is often worth no more than the paper it fills. Yet today, world peace is more dependent on these pieces of paper than ever before. They bind the United States, for instance, to all of Latin America, most of Europe, and a good part of Asia. In the next few days, study groups of professionals and dedicated amateurs will meet all over the country to pull land haw at the biggest, and also the flimsiest, of the documents--the Charter of the United Nations...