Word: leas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sabath, 72, is not forceful. Gossip in Washington last week was that he might be asked, as a good New Deal soldier, to step aside and let a stronger man take the great Rules chair -perhaps a veteran drafted from some other committee like California's Lea (Interstate & Foreign Commerce), New York's Cullen (No. 2 on Ways & Means, Tammany manager in the House, but tractable), or Virginia's Drewry (Democratic Congressional Committee). In Chicago, Mr. Sabath, who was born in what later became Czechoslovakia, hopefully said: "Whatever power I can wield [as chairman] will be used...
...Cracked down on a Chicago drug chain's advertising. In the first such action since the Wheeler-Lea Act amended the Federal Trade Commission Act last June, FTC announced that upon its recommendation a U. S. District Court had enjoined Hartman stores from advertising a weight-reducing remedy named 281 because in doing so the chain had failed to reveal that use of the preparation "may be injurious to the health...
...Lawrence known as the International Rift, through which runs the U. S.-Canada boundary line. Each with his right hand clutching one grip of an enormous pair of shears, they snipped a gaily fluttering ribbon. The first Thousand Islands International Bridge, from Collins Landing, N. Y. to Ivy Lea, Ont., was officially open...
...since Franklin Roosevelt began his vigil over business morals, FTC has disposed of twice as many com plaints as in the previous five years-and the commission has been rewarded for its vigilance: 1) the 1936 Robinson-Patman Act extended its jurisdiction over price discrimination; 2) the 1938 Wheeler-Lea amendment to the original Federal Trade Commission Act relieved it of the necessity of proving that unfair trade practices injured competitors and allowed the commission to go to court to obtain remedies; 3) this year the Government provided the commission with a new home...
While everybody in the air transport business knew that the new act was far better for all concerned than anything previously devised for air industry control, they knew, too. in the words of Eastern Airlines' plain-talking War Ace Eddie Rickenbacker, that "the McCarran-Lea act will be only as good as the men who comprise the board...