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Administration of the Robinson-Patman Act is in the hands of the Federal Trade Commission, custodian of the Clayton Act which the new law amends.* Hampered by lack of funds, the Commission has been desperately trying to set up administrative machinery for a measure which conceivably might require an NRA staff to enforce it. Not until last week did the Commission get around to cracking down on five corporations in three complaints affecting two homely commodities...
Parkman declared that the Communists are seeing spooks under the bed when they say that the Republicans are reactionary. "The underlying philosophy of the New Deal is to raise prices by curtailment of production and the creation of monopoly under the NRA," he said, "while the Republicans advocate removing restrictions on business and by free competition get lower prices and an increased distribution of income...
...year after their "sick chicken" had routed the Blue Eagle in the U. S. Supreme Court at a cost to them of $20,000, Brooklyn's four NRA-hating Schechter brothers were discovered to be broke, their home and their big poultry jobbing business gone. Last week in Brooklyn the press turned up another martyr to the cause of Rugged Individualism in the person of Joe Tipaldo, laundryman who fought New York's minimum wage law for women up to the U. S. Supreme Court and won (TIME, June...
...women in his convention telegram, it seemed improbable that Joe Tipaldo would be employed in the Republican campaign. Already enlisted as a GOP speaker, however, was a more famed New Deal martyr, Fred C. Perkins of York, Pa. Because he could not pay workers in his battery plant NRA code wages, the big, hairy-fisted onetime Cornell footballer went to jail for 18 days, was fined $1,500, became the nation's prime symbol of the "little man" oppressed by NRA (TIME, Dec. 17, 1934 et seq.). Since then the Perkins' battery business has gone steadily downhill...
...have never met General Hugh Johnson," wrote Mr. Pegler, "so I don't think I can be accused of log-rolling or back-scratching when I remark that 'Old Iron' pants,' as the boys used to call him around the NRA, is turning out a really good newspaper column these days. This is a bit of a surprise. . . . Whenever it was that Old Ironpants made his first attempt at this line of work, he seemed to be writing with his elbows, and apparently didn't have what it takes...