Word: tradings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Need to regulate trade practices "which are undesirable from the point of view of public interest" was considered a present urgency by John P. Miller, instructor of Economics, in an address sponsored by the Harvard Guardian, over radio station WAAB last night...
Charging the Federal Trade Commission ineffective in this field, the instructor asked for an "enlightened government policy" in dealing with unfair price discriminations by manufacturers which cause "substantial injury" to independent dealers...
...attacked also the practice of uniform bidding on government contracts and urged that a "commission of limited discretionary powers whose objectives are more extensive and more clearly defined than those of the Federal Trade Commission" be established to lay down carefully defined rules for business to follow in these fields...
Since then, automobile tycoons have done their best to wheedle Congress and the President away from any further ideas of anti-trust activity. The National Automobile Dealers Association has done just the reverse, with these results last week: 1) Wisconsin's Congressman Gardner R. Withrow, directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate automobile dealer-manufacturer relations; 2) FTC acquiesced to the N. A. D. A. petition for a conference to establish fair trade practice rules, chose April 26 as the day, Detroit as the place. On the agenda, among other things, said FTC, are "various forms of misrepresentation, including...
...Ethridge. He is general manager of the Bingham papers in Louisville-the Courier-Journal and the Times-and he will spend more time in Louisville than he will in Washington. He took pains to make it clear last week that the N. A. B. will continue to be a trade association and nothing else. The radio industry is afflicted with various forms of static-incredibly complicated radio unions are fermenting, musicians, competing with canned music, are sullen, composers are at odds about patents-but Mr. Ethridge's chief duty will be using his charming Southern accent to reason...