Word: webbs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Spider Webb draws his first starting assignment for the freshman nine at 7 p.m. today against New Prep on Soldiers Field. The entire Crimson lineup assumes a semblance of permanency after only two games...
While doing so, "Doc" Webb ran smack up against the 1939 fair-trade laws which Florida, and 44 other states, had passed at the insistence of organized druggists as protection against price-cutting. When Webb put on a sale of Hiram Walker whisky below the fair-trade minimum...
Hiram Walker distillers got an injunction to stop him from selling it.* Webb filed a countersuit charging that the state's fair-trade law was unconstitutional. (During litigation Webb stopped retailing liquor, is uncertain now about starting up again...
Last week, Doc Webb won the right to sell anything at any price he pleases. In a 6-to-1 decision, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the state fair-trade law was unconstitutional. Wrote Chief Justice Alto Adams: "The act is arbitrary and unreasonable . . ." and an unlawful use of the state police power because it stifles competition and tends to foster monopolies...
...Florida State Pharmaceutical Association called emergency meetings to push an appeal for a rehearing on the decision. Cried Secretary-Manager R. Q. Richards: "If this decision stands, I predict that within three years at least 300 businesses, most of them small units, will go broke." Said jubilant Doc Webb: "For the man in the street, it is the people's victory against price-fixing...