Word: ftc
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Trade Commission in recent years has seldom struck out. Of 4,942 complaints issued since 1933, it made all but 126 stick without court action, won all but five of its court cases for a net batting average of .999. But last fortnight the FTC was caught way off base, sent red-faced to the showers...
Understatement has never been the backbone of Crazy promotion. Sample blurb: ". . . 70 to 75% of disease today can be attributed to one condition. Crazy Water remedies this common condition." Fortnight ago the Federal Trade Commission cracked down, issued a complaint against Crazy Water Co. Charged FTC: Crazy cannot help, as it claims it can, in the cure or relief of some 30 ailments of the alimentary or urinary tracts, Crazy misrepresents constipation as the cause of some 50 diseases, Crazy products do nothing more than speed the bowels...
...Texans wondered which lay more heavily on FTC minds, purgatives or politics. Paced by Politico Hal's key-noting speech at the recent State Democratic Convention (held in Crazy Hotel), the Collins machine had taken an anti-New-Deal, anti-Third-Term stand, toyed with the idea of plumping for Willkie. Whereupon revolt broke loose against the Collins machine. And New Deal Congressman Clyde L. Garrett (since defeated for renomination by a Collins candidate) went after Collins' business flank, threw nothing in the way of the FTC complaint...