High Cost of Living: Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, 66th Congress, 1st Session, on Amendments Proposed to the Food Control ActU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 92 pages |
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agency amendment AMES ANDERSON association Attorney General PALMER bargaining bill cents a quart CHAIRMAN clause collective sales committee Congress consumer corporation cost of living court cows dairy dealers Department of Justice determined district attorney enforce exemption fact fair price farm organizations farmers Federal Trade Commission fix prices fix the price Food Administration food-control act GILBERT N give going Government HEFLIN hereby high cost hoarding HUTCHINSON indicted INGERSOLL JACOWAY JONES jury labor Lawrence County licensing system limit the facilities MCLAUGHLIN of Michigan MCLAUGHLIN of Nebraska ment MILLER necessaries operation packers penalty person practice present President is authorized price fixing price of milk profit prohibited prosecution provisions punished purpose question reasonable regulations retailer statute sumer supply thereof thing TINCHER tion unfair storage charge United unlawful unreasonable rate violation VOIGT willfully York York City YOUNG
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Page 58 - If any clause, sentence, paragraph or part of this Act shall, for any reason, be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair, or invalidate (the remainder thereof, but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment shall have been rendered.
Page 59 - When construing and enforcing the provisions of this Act, the act, omission, or failure of any officer...
Page 55 - The proceedings of such libel cases shall conform, as near as may be, to the proceedings in admiralty, except that either party may demand trial by jury of any issue of fact joined in any case, and all such proceedings shall be at the suit of and in the name of the United States.
Page 55 - President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said...
Page 59 - States, and for introducing among them the habits and arts of civilization, the president of the United States shall be, and he is hereby authorized...
Page 3 - Navy, to assure an adequate supply and equitable distribution, and to facilitate the movement, of foods, feeds, fuel including fuel oil and natural gas, and fertilizer and fertilizer ingredients, tools, utensils, implements, machinery, and equipment required for the actual production of foods, feeds, and fuel...
Page 54 - ... no person shall, after a date fixed in such announcement, engage in or carry on any...
Page 78 - ... to engage in any discriminatory and unfair, or any deceptive or wasteful practice or device, or to make any unjust or unreasonable rate or charge in handling or dealing in or with any necessaries...
Page 56 - Secretary or his delegate shall require all persons coming within its provisions to keep such records and statements of account, and may require such persons to make such returns verified under oath or otherwise, as will fully and correctly disclose all transactions...
Page 4 - An act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of those ores, metals, and minerals which have formerly been largely imported, or of which there is or may be an inadequate supply.