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...Wagner Act. Filed after the "Battle of the Overpass" when Richard Frankensteen and other United Automobile Workers were set upon and beaten up as they attempted to distribute union literature at the gate of Ford's vast River Rouge plant (TIME, June 7). the Labor Board's complaint accuses Henry Ford of virtually every unfair labor practice covered by the law. The answer to the complaint was signed not by President Edsel Ford or any other officer of the company but by Harry H. Bennett, personnel director and head of the Ford police, better known as "Ford service...
...ready-witted patriarch with a slow drawl and snow white hair, Commissioner Davis was a Roosevelt appointee, specializes in fraudulent advertising. He once received a bitter complaint from an executive whose salary had been revealed in an FTC hearing. Replied Mr. Davis, cocking his head slyly: "My dear sir, if anybody paid me $90,000-and I really earned it-I would be glad to tell the whole world." William Augustiis Ayres, 70, now FTC chairman (the job rotates from year to year). A tall, slender, Wilsonian liberal who was on the House Naval Affairs Committee when Franklin Roosevelt...
...vast majority of FTC cases come under the elastic heading "unfair competition," a term which naturally leads it into the trivia of sharp and shady business practice. Anyone may complain to FTC, and sometimes FTC itself takes the initiative. After a preliminary investigation, the FTC may issue a formal complaint against the offender, giving him 20 days to reply. Then FTC holds hearings, comes to a decision. If it is an affirmative decision, FTC then issues a cease-&-desist order, which is a sort of informal injunction. A cease-&-desist order may be appealed to the Circuit Court of Appeals...
...Gershwin left school to plug songs for Jerome Remick & Sons. He made $15 a week. Harry Von Tilzer brought out Gershwin's first song, a complaint entitled When You Want 'em, You Can't Get 'em; When You Got 'em, You Don't Want 'em. He went into vaudeville accompanying Louise Dresser, and later, Nora Bayes. Vivienne Segal plugged his You-oo Just You and There's More to a Kiss Than...
...makers of sporting goods* and, according to the FTC, its members own or control almost every U. S. golf ball factory. Each member company in the association makes a number of balls stamped PGA which are usually of higher quality than balls bearing other names. In its complaint the FTC charged that the two associations deliberately executed eight such practices as exclusive license agreements with wholesalers selling PGA balls, price discounts to members, coercion of nonmember retailers to prevent their selling balls at prices less than those designated by the maker. The effect, said the FTC, "has been unreasonably...