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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vigilance over trade relations with Germany to spot violations of the boycott. If the boycott council ferrets out evidence of such a violation, the firm involved is asked for an explanation. If none is forthcoming, the council pickets its offices, publishes its name and offense, does its best to prevent customers from trading there until the firm agrees to arbitrate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Obnoxious Practice | 11/22/1937 | See Source »

...architect of the "Good Society" decides that the holding company . . . "is a fartuitous evolution from the condition of the law and marks a vital point at which the law was maladjusted to the economy . . . Thus the renovation of corporate law so as to prevent business from becoming any bigger than it can become in the test of the market is a necessity item on the agenda of liberalism." Mr. Lippmann does not say whether he favors the New Real's Holding Company Bill...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRIMSON BOOKSHELF | 11/19/1937 | See Source »

Reader was Mr. Justice Hugo LaFayette Black. The case involved the right of the Federal Trade Commission to prevent Standard Education Society from advertising, as a free gift for subscribers to its $69.50 loose-leaf supplement service, an encyclopedia which the F. T. C. had found normally sold at $69.50 with no charge for the supplement. In his opinion, in which all of his eight colleagues concurred, Justice Black ruled for the Commission, gave an outline of his reasoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Old Men, New Battles | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...prevent speculation, all Brazilian coffee exchanges were last week ordered closed. In Bogota, the Exchange Control Board of Colombia tightened up on foreign exchange and coffee exchanges buzzed. In the U. S., world's greatest coffee drinking nation, the New Orleans Exchange closed its doors and prices broke the full 1? daily limit on the New York Coffee & Sugar Exchange. By week's end December coffee options were down to 7?per lb. U. S. retail coffee prices remained unchanged, however, because it takes about a month for Brazilian coffee to reach the U. S. and not until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: 3 a Cup? | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

...increasing number of automobile trailers presents the problem of safe disposal of human wastes from such trailors in order to prevent the spread of possible infection...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Studies Show Chances of Combating Spread of Infection By Bacteria and Living Virus with Ultra Violet Barriers | 11/15/1937 | See Source »

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