Price Discrimination: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Seventy-forth Congress, Second Session, on S. 4171, a Bill Making it Unlawful for Any Person Engaged in Commerce to Discriminate in Price Or Terms of Sale Between Purchasers of Commodities of Like Grade, Quality, and Quantity, and for Other Purposes. March 24 and 25, 1936U.S. Government Printing Office, 1936 - 165 pages Considers (74) S. 3154, (74) S. 4171. |
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Page 116 - To prescribe by its board of directors, by-laws not inconsistent with law, regulating the manner in which its general business may be conducted, and the privileges granted to it by law may be exercised and enjoyed.
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Page 99 - person," or "persons," wherever used in this act shall be deemed to include corporations and associations existing under or authorized by the laws of either the United States, the laws of any of the Territories, the laws of any State, or the laws of any foreign country.
Page 115 - America for or on account of such stock shall be issued by the Corporation to the Secretary of the Treasury, and shall be evidence of stock ownership.
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Page 101 - ... shall be enjoined or otherwise prohibited. When the parties complained of shall have been duly notified of such petition the court shall proceed, as soon as may be, to the hearing and determination of the case; and pending such petition and before final decree, the court may at any time make such temporary restraining order or prohibition as shall be deemed just in the premises.
Page 100 - States, or fix a price charged therefor, or discount from, or rebate upon, such price, on the condition, agreement, or understanding that the lessee or purchaser thereof shall not use or deal in the goods, wares, merchandise, machinery, supplies, or other...
Page 101 - Court of the United States in the district in which the defendant resides or is found, without respect to the amount in controversy, and shall recover threefold the damages by him sustained, and the costs of suit, including a reasonable attorney's fee. "Sec. 8. That the word 'person...
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