Word: consenting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ford Motor Co. for certain financing practices had been ended by consent decrees. In these decrees Ford and Chrysler not only agreed to refrain from coercing dealers to finance car sales through finance companies affiliated with Ford and Chrysler-they also agreed to stop advertising their affiliated finance companies exclusively. This gave Thurman Arnold his cue. Said he: "Monopoly is fostered when advertising is used to put competitors at a disadvantage for the sole reason that they do not have resources sufficient to expend equally large sums in advertising. . . . In the automobile financing field vast sums are spent by manufacturers...
...Tentatively ended two antitrust suits. The Department of Justice for the second time (TIME, Nov. 22) had charged that Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp. and General Motors Corp. compelled their dealers to finance purchases through manufacturer-affiliated finance companies. Last week the Department tentatively accepted a consent decree under which Ford and Chrysler agree to discontinue certain practices. General Motors is expected to fight the indictment in court November...
...year and a half before Reformer Tunney's outburst, D.S.I. members got along like gin and whiskey on an empty stomach, squabbling over a permanent chairman to succeed the late William Forbes Morgan. Last week they found one with enough soul to satisfy even Gene Tunney. By unanimous consent they elected as executive director Dr. Wesley A. Sturges, since 1923 professor of law at, Yale University...
...legal side, the constitutionality of separating Harvard from Cambridge was slightly hazy. In a statement to the CRIMSON immediately after the meeting Tuesday night, Law Professor McLaughlin expressed the opinion that the Legislature could alter the bounds of municipalities even without the consent of the district's inhabitants. The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Dever is looking into the case, and in general supported the view of Professor McLaughlin. Dever referred the CRIMSON to the case of the Commonwealth vs. Plaisted, where a decision handed down by Chief Justice Morton quoted a statement of Chief Justice Chapman...
...There can be no doubt," Chapman said, "that the power to create, change and destroy municipal corporations is in the legislature." However, in the statues of Massachusetts there is a law with regard to the General Court's power over municipalities which declares that the "consent ... of a majority of the inhabitants of such town" is necessary...