Word: desisted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, by way of routine, the commission quietly filed nine complaints, issued seven cease-&-desist orders, and obtained stipulations from 13 firms which voluntarily agreed to the commission's reform proposals. Last week samples of the commission's multiplied activities...
...past orders of the FTC automatically effective unless the respondents filed an appeal before May 21. Recalling that FTC's order ending "Pittsburgh Plus" had never been challenged, since the company consented to the action, Big Steel hastened to file an appeal against this 14-year-old cease-&-desist. By this time the handwriting was clearly on the wall. All that was needed to make Big Steel jump again was the creation of President Roosevelt's Monopoly Investigation. Its first meeting was scheduled for last week and it was common gossip that U. S. Steel Corp...
...Delighted retailers all over the U. S. In 1935 the Federal Trade Commission told a New York jewelry store named L. & C. Mayers Co. to "cease & desist" calling itself a wholesaler when most of its trade was done retail at non-wholesale prices-with people who were misled into thinking they were getting a bargain. Last week the Second Circuit Court upheld the 1935 FTC order. Immediately the National Retail Furniture Association started a drive to eliminate "gyp-wholesaling" in furniture. Perfectly legal, of course, remains the business of genuine wholesalers who occasionally retail goods at wholesale prices...
...Cracked down on the great meat packing house of Swift & Co. Charging "unfair and unjustly discriminatory" methods in the sale and distribution of its products, Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace issued a cease and desist order. Secretary Wallace's action followed a seven-year look-see into such complaints as that Swift made agreements with numerous concerns to buy meat only from it, that Swift deliberately misled customers about competitors' policies, that Swift manipulated prices in search of a meat monopoly...
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...