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The Federal Trade Commission And The Courts [Part 2], Vern Countryman
The Federal Trade Commission And The Courts [Part 2], Vern Countryman
Washington Law Review
Continuation of the article from volume 17, no 1.
The Federal Trade Commission And The Courts [Part 1], Vern Countryman
The Federal Trade Commission And The Courts [Part 1], Vern Countryman
Washington Law Review
But a majority of Congress had a still different idea as to what was needed. In their view, the Federal Trade Commission was to have positive powers for the enforcement of new legislation designed to supplement the existing law, in addition to the powers of investigation and publicity contemplated by the President. Accordingly, the plans of the industrial leaders were rejected, as apparently was Mr. William Howard Taft's assurance that the courts were quite capable of handling the entire matter under the Sherman Act, and in 1914 Congress enacted the Federal Trade Commission Act," creating a five-man commission with power …