Word: desists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...
...little businessmen arrived in Washington last week just in time to hear another piece of news sweet to the ears. After more than two years of hearings in various cities of the land, the Federal Trade Commission ordered Goodyear Tire & Rubber to cease and desist from granting special favors to Sears, Roebuck & Co. in return for the privilege of making the tires that Sears sells under its own brand names. This mail-order business has often accounted for 10% of Goodyear's total sales...