PROTECTING THE CONSUMER
Protecting the Consumer Federal Trade Commission on Guard Against False and Unfair Advertising, Other Business Practices YOU won't find very many of the following items, if any, in your...
...Chromium (or chrome) steel, the complaint points out, is a much more expensive and valuable product than plain carbon steel, and combines intense hardness with a high elastic limit, while possessing unusual wearing qualities...
...Hnrrington mentioned these facts hi an appeal to business men to help accelerate the employment of relief workers during National Employment week...
...Jessie M. Taylor, n sccr.'-'ary-tieasurer, and the entire business is conducted from their apartment at 4240 Clarendon ave...
...Only Justice James Clark McReynolda dis?entpd...
...Champions of public ownership are also busy...
...Taylor, the findings continue, is president of the respondent corporation...
...Pa.: Robeson-Rochester Corp., Rochester, N. Y...
...Power Is Big Oregon Issue At Elections PORTLAND, Ore.—What has been described as "one of the most strategic struggles of the public ownership movement" will be voted up or down an an election in various parts of Oregon on May it...
...Already 30 such districts are in existece...
...his wife...
...Inc., Chicago, a stipulation in which it agrees to cease certain representatives in the sale of its "Dari-Rich Syrup...
...one of Chicago's residential districts...
...In magazines and other publications, the complaint charges, the company, in describing its products, makes use of the following terms, and others of similar nature and import: "chrome," "chromium" and "chromium steel...
...The respondent, according to findings, advertised in magazines and periodicals circulated in various states that it offered home study courses of instruction leading to degrees in arts, sciences, philosophy, education, and a large number of other branches of learning at low cost and on easy terms...
...Inc., Providence...
...Respondent manufacturers are: Imperial Knife Co., Inc...
...Commission findings are that the respondent corporation, originally incorporated in 1913 as Washington university, has been operated by Walter Raleigh Taylor under the same charter but under different corporate names, including McKinley-Roosevelt university, which was changed to the present name after the respondent had entered into a stipulation with the cemmirsion in 1336...
...In truth, the complaint charges, the respondent's furniture is not made of the steel alloy commonly known as chromium steel or chrome steel, but, on the contrary, is made of plain carbon steel with only a plating of chromium...
...five in this sta:e and 25 in the state of Washington...
...WASHINGTON, D. C—Picketing Is a right guaranteed by the freedom of speech section of the constitution, the U. S. supreme court held in two decisions nullifying anti-picketing ordinances in Shasta county, California, and Tuscaloosa county, Alabama...
...Because of a letdown in recovery, however, many have been compelled to return to Kie WPA...
...McKinley-Roosevelt College of Arts and Sciences, Chicago correspondence school, has been ordered by the Federal Trade commission to cease and desist from certain unfair competitive method.-, and deceptive practices in the sale of home study instruction courses in education, writing, psychology, chemistry, business and other subjects...
...The issue which will be decided on May 17 has to do with the formation of six districts in this state, one covering the city of Portland...
...F. C. Harrington...
...from representing the finished drink to be milk or made of whole milk in localities where whole milk is used by dairies and others in the preparation of the respondent's product...
...and Colonial Knife Co...
...W. P. A. commissioner, disclosed that during the' lsst 12 months more than 1,250,000 workers had voluntarily left his payrolls to return to private employment...
...N. Y.: W. R. Case and Sons Cutlery Co., Bradford...
...Workers Anxious to Get Own Jobs WASHINGTON, D. C—The cruel slander that men and women who get on relief try to make their Job a career was again refuted in smashing manner last week...
...William S. McClymonds, trading as Oxol Laboratories and Western Research Laboratories, Denver, Colo., engaged in compuonding, selling and distributing a medicinal preparation, has been ordered by the Federal Trade commission to cease and desist from misrepresentations concerning his product...
...Protecting the Consumer Federal Trade Commission on Guard Against False and Unfair Advertising, Other Business Practices YOU won't find very many of the following items, if any, in your advertising filled daily newspapers, but they tell a story of interest'1 to every member of the consuming public about practices by business organizations and how the Federal Trade commission acts to protect the public interest...
...tendency is to induce buyers to believe that the respondents' products have been endorsed by that organization and are a part o! its s'andard equipment...
...The stipulation does not inhibit Bowey's Inc...
...In newspapers and periodicals and other printed and written matter, the commission finds, the respondent has represented that the preparation is a cure or remedy for and constitutes a competent and effective treatment in cases of delayed menstruation...
...Findings of the commission are that the product, designated "Quinos Capsules," is intended for use by women suffering from delayed menstruation...
...N. Y.: Schrece Cutlery Co., Waldcn...
...First, however, public utility districts must be formed...
...or other marks or insignia characteristic of the Eoy Scouts of Amtrica...
...Findings are that these representations are misleading and un-rue, and that the preparation is without any substantial therapeutic value aside from its effect as an ordinary laxative...
...Royal Metal Manufacturing Co., Chicago, engaged in the manufacture, sale and distribution of household, office and trade furniture, with a factory located at Michigan City, Ind., is charged, in a complaint issued by the Federal Trade commission, with mi.srepresentaticn concerning its products...
...Forty miles from this city Uncle Sam's Eonneville dam is prepared to give the people of this area electric power at the lowest wholesale rate in the United States...
...He urged special consideration for the 2.000,000 men over 40 who are capable of doing good work, but have been unable to obtain jobs...
...Col...
...and H. Boker and Co...
...The terms "chrome" and "chromium," the complaint alleges, are generally understood by the purchasing public to be applicable solely to a steel alloy made by combining carbon steel with chromium...
...The Federal Trade commission has accepted from Bowey's...
...Both sides claim victory...
...The Federal Trade commission has issued complaints against seven cutlery manufacturing corporations alleging that they have sold pocket knives oi such design and appearance that, when marked or labelled by use of the v.-ord "Scout," "Boy Scout...
...The respondent agrees to discontinue advertising that a drink prepared by dairies and others from its -'Dari-Rich" choco-Ir.te flavered syrup, is made of milk, or otherwise representing that it is made of whole milk...
...Watch for this interesting feature in The Progressive...
...Inc., New York...
...R. I.: Uiea Cutlery Co., Utlca...
...Of course, the power interests are digging into their socks to defeat the movement...
Vol. 10 • May 1940 • No. 19
