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...jury chairman, Mr. Rockefeller prevailed upon Dr. Flexner to make a study of prostitution in Europe, a job for which, Dr. Flexner protested, he was "absolutely without qualifications." Nevertheless, Dr. Flexner pitched in, conscientiously toured brothels and red-light districts in eight European countries. To his wife, Playwright Anne Crawford (Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch), Dr. Flexner faithfully sent reports of his investigations. Excerpt (from an interview with a prostitute): "When I left, I gave her a few gold pieces. . . . She inquired very kindly: 'Is this all?' meaning obviously did I ask nothing more...
...other Willkie songs last week clamored for recognition. Robert Crawford, Alaska-born Princetonian (1925), wrote one called Thank God! We've Found the Man. In San Francisco the Willkie Volunteers were singing Where There's A Willkie There's A Way ("Even the Milky Way will twinkle the Willkie Way"). The New Jersey Associated Willkie Clubs sang: "Heigho, heigho, It's back to work we go: With Wendell Willkie leading us the jobs will grow." Headquarters of the Associated Willkie Clubs had received 1,000 Willkie songs, winnowed them to three, sent a Negro band about...
Soon after Repeal, licensed New York retailers formed the Council, whose 900 members are 80% of the city's stores, half all those in the State. Already semi-monopolies because of State licensing laws, councilmen saw a chance to make real money when the Feld-Crawford Act was passed. Negotiating with the distillers, they obtained a uniform 40% retail markup, a 4 to 20% discount for large purchases besides. Under this scheme Council members could buy $1 liquor from the distiller for as little as 80?, resell it for $1.40, while their operating costs averaged less than...
...found it, rocked the Council on its heels by charging restraint of trade. "By threatening to boycott distillers' brands," said he, "[the Council has] compelled and coerced distillers and distributors to adopt this agreed-upon markup of 40%." This was "horizontal" price-fixing, "in direct violation of Feld-Crawford Law. The public, of course, is the victim...
...retailers (like Macy's), who have fought price-fixing for five years, this was cheerful news-a big hole in the armor of all price-fixing theorists. To New York State legislators it looked as though a major operation would have to be done on the battered Feld-Crawford...