Word: commissioner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Charging the Federal Trade Commission ineffective in this field, the instructor asked for an "enlightened government policy" in dealing with unfair price discriminations by manufacturers which cause "substantial injury" to independent dealers.
Once he worked for the Pennsylvania. Then he was president of Baltimore & Ohio, and after that of Rock Island. In 1907 Harriman picked him for Delaware & Hudson, which ran 870 miles "from nowhere to nowhere" (meaning from Wilkes-Barre, Pa. to Montreal). He already was head of a "right of...
Time & again Mr. Loree tried to connect his two roads. Time & again the Commission shook its head. In the 1920s he inconspicuously bought into small Eastern lines like the Lehigh Valley and the Wabash, presented the Commission with a plan for a "fifth trunk line'' to rank with...
Since then, automobile tycoons have done their best to wheedle Congress and the President away from any further ideas of anti-trust activity. The National Automobile Dealers Association has done just the reverse, with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade...
A few months ago Frank McNinch of the Federal Communications Commission suggested that he might soon start to investigate radio. Last week, as embarrassingly intimate questionnaires on financial matters began to arrive at every radio station in the land, the National Association of Broadcasters picked a man named Mark Foster...