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...Hardwaremen all over the U.S., with thousands of wares to itemize, felt the same way, but few could take such drastic action as DeVore. Most of them would simply not be able to comply. Cried Victor L. Hubert of Mansfield, Mass.: "I couldn't possibly complete price lists for the 10,000 to 12,000 items in my store by May 30. But I've got to go on taking care of my customers ... So I'll be thrown outside the law." The OPS had issued the hardware order without formally consulting the hardware industry. Flooded with...
When Federal Trade Commissioner Lowell Mason spoke before the hardware manufacturers convention in Atlantic City last week, startled hardwaremen wondered if they were hearing aright. He addressed them as "fellow law-violators" and told them they were all probably violating the Supreme Court decision which FTC had won against basing points (TIME, July 19). He urged them to write their Congressmen to nullify the decision and ridiculed the FTC's enforcement of it by reciting a jingle...
...hardwaremen were hearing aright, all right. Ever since he was named to FTC in 1945, gum-chewing, wisecracking Lowell Mason has been giving the other four FTC members a running hotfoot. He has usually dissented from their decisions, has continually talked and written against the whole method of FTC law enforcement...
...Ironpants") Johnson. Said he: "You can't stop a skyrocket advance in prices of everything merely by tying prices of a few things to the ground. There is only one way to do this job. That is by fiat. ..." William Trufant Foster was just as gloomy, told hardwaremen: "I was on the Consumers' Advisory Board of the NRA and found it was window dressing. . . . The Government can't control the price level and stop the upward spiral." But unlike Johnson, he concluded the Government should keep hands...
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