Word: patman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Signed by President Roosevelt last June were a series of amendments to the Federal anti-trust laws. These amendments, written in three short pages of text, constitute the so-called Robinson-Patman Anti-Price Discrimination Act, most discussed, least understood piece of business legislation passed during the last session of Congress. In the months since the Robinson-Patman Act became the law of the land, it has grown into a top-flight topic for lay and legal speakers, the subject of countless tracts, booklets, pamphlets, articles, opinions, analyses, and a prime source of worry to most of the country...
...general the Robinson-Patman Act puts the beneficiaries of discrimination on the same footing as the donors; transfers the burden of proof from the prosecution to the defense; attempts to substitute specific prohibitions for the generalities on price discrimination contained in the old anti-trust laws...
Administration of the Robinson-Patman Act is in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, custodian of the Clayton Act which the new law amends.* Hampered by lack of funds, the Commission has been desperately trying to set up administrative machinery for a measure which conceivably might require an NRA staff to enforce it. Not until last week did the Commission get around to cracking down on five corporations in three complaints affecting two homely commodities...
...Passed the Patman-Robinson Bill to regulate chain stores, sent it to the Senate...
...Washington last week to put the screws on Congressmen and Senators went a delegation of independent U. S. grocers, druggists, jobbers and their lawyers. Their purpose was to lobby for anti-chain-store legislation, particularly the so-called Robinson-Patman Bill, one of a score of measures introduced in this session of Congress with the avowed intention of undercutting the advantages of large-scale merchandising. The "little businessmen" were received with vociferous sympathy. Senator Borah marked the occasion by introducing still another bill intended to forbid selling more cheaply to large buyers than to small ones. Texas' Representative Patman...