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Said the Federal Trade Commission to the U. S. Steel Corporation: "Cease and desist from your 'Pittsburgh Plus.' " This after deliberations which began in June at the request of the Western Association of Rolled Steel Consumers, backed up by 32 States...
...Order. The Commission's order directed the Corporation to cease and desist from quoting for sale or selling in interstate commerce plates, shapes, bars, or their fabrications (wire, etc.) 1) at Pittsburgh Plus prices; 2) at prices based on any point other than that where the products are manufactured or shipped; 3) at discriminatory prices designed to lessen competition. The Commission referred to the freight charge involved by "Pittsburgh Plus" as "imaginary," indi- cated the hardships upon consumers as resultant from the fact that the Corporation produces nearly 50% of the American rolled steel...
...these communities have been exaggerated and overstated. As has been done in former reports, however, the Council wishes to record its condemnation of this pernicious practice wherever it may be found, and to urge component societies and constituent associations to purge their membership of any who wilfully refuse to desist from such practice, the continuance of which can only bring dishonor and reproach on the medical profession...
Robert Williams, General Secretary of the Transport Workers: "War with France is nearer today than war with Germany was in 1911. We cannot desist from criticism of and protest against the wanton policy pursued by France in destroying the economic integrity of Europe. The working class must seek to establish a real democratic diplomacy. We must challenge the assumption that Poincare speaks for France any more than Curzon for England. Unity of the working class is the only means of preventing...
...individual is trodden down in this debauched oligarchy of witlessness. At the Fogg Museum this morning, while I was cutting out four illustrations from a book in the library one of the students across the table looked up and threatened to report me if I did not desist. I cleverly conceived an explanation which proved satisfactory and went off with the prints, but the insolence of the thing humiliated me. To have one's very actions questioned,--it's preposterous...