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...complain to FTC, and sometimes FTC itself takes the initiative. After a preliminary investigation, the FTC may issue a formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision. If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease-&-desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction. A cease-&-desist order may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals and then to the Supreme Court but reversals are rare. Since 1933 more than 50 FTC cases have reached the Supreme Court but FTC lost only one and that...
Simpler, speedier than the cease-&-desist procedure is the "stipulation," a promise exacted from the offender before a formal complaint is issued that he will be good in the future. One of the chief criticisms of FTC is that these stipulations are sometimes used as a defense when the offender gets into trouble with other Government bodies such as the Post Office and the Food & Drug Administration. Famed was the case of the mail-order makers of Marmola tablets, a reducing compound. Driven out of business by the Post Office, the Marmola makers went in for national distribution through retail...
...infer Mr. Roland Moncure [TIME, Feb. 22] is a bachelor. With TIME and LIFE arriving the same day all is quiet on the domestic front. But if they arrived on different days consider the strife between man and wife which you would thus create. So please desist from your plans for a separate distribution date for the two magazines...
...overwhelming last week and these minions, in open defiance of their employers, the Press Lords, gave every assistance they could to U. S. correspondents covering the case. At Ipswich the local authorities told British reporters whom they suspected of aiding their U. S. colleagues. "You are warned to desist...
Having put up with this exaction of "phantom" freight charges for some 20 years, steel consumers finally revolted. After prolonged proceedings, the Federal Trade Commission issued a cease & desist order in 1924. Pittsburgh Plus was then replaced by the basing point system, which substituted a number of cities for Pittsburgh. Other industries now using basing point prices, which may also, include "phantom" freight charges, are cement, lumber, paper, flour, sugar...