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Inability to get capital financing was one complaint that jelled last year at the Small Businessmen's Conference (TIME, Feb. 14, 1938, et seq.). Since then three bills have been introduced in Congress to improve credit lines to small business. Last week Acting SEC Chairman Jerome Frank announced that all three bills would be held in abeyance while SEC and the Junior Chamber of Commerce collaborated in a study of the problem...
...four nations concerned, only France, the legal if doubtful owner, entered a formal diplomatic complaint. The Japanese, who can keep silence as well as steal like gypsies, said little when France complained about the snatch of Hainan in February. They were mum this week...
...were in such great demand by anatomists that "resurrection" of dead bodies "became a racket, the like of which Chicago never knew." Rival gangs robbed graves, lured victims to lonely inns, strangled them, sold the remains to innocent doctors. Londoners sang the popular ballad of Mary's Ghost, complaint of a resurrected girl to her lover: "The arm that used to take your...
Alleging that the advertising of two products sold under the name of oldtime ageless Actress Edna Wallace Hopper is "exaggerated and untrue," the Federal Trade Commission filed a complaint against Affiliated Products, Inc. of Jersey City. Example: an ad which quoted Miss Hopper as saying, "I am past 60,* yet boys scarcely above college age often try to flirt with...
...lets a week go by without cracking down on at least one corporate offender. Last week, prefacing a review of FTC's dealings with steel, milk, artichokes, cheese, liquor, fish, poultry, Mr. Ballinger stuck pretty much to generalities. His main point turned out to be the familiar FTC complaint that it has been unable to limit the growth of monopoly because the Clayton act forbids only corporate combinations through stock purchase, does not forbid actual purchase of physical properties...