Combinations in Restraint of Trade in Bread and Related Products: Hearings, Sixty-ninth Congress, Second Session Pursuant to S.Res. 270 .... December 22, 1926-February 23, 1927

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Page 19 - ... (a) To gather and compile information concerning, and to investigate from time to time the organization, business, conduct, practices, and management of any corporation engaged in commerce, excepting banks and common carriers subject to the act to regulate commerce, and its relation to other corporations and to individuals, associations, and partnerships.
Page 191 - Upon the application of the Attorney General to investigate and make recommendations for the readjustment of the business of any corporation alleged to be violating the anti-trust Acts in order that the corporation may thereafter maintain its organization, management, and conduct of business in accordance with law.
Page 111 - A final judgment or decree heretofore or hereafter rendered in any civil or criminal proceeding brought by or on behalf of the United States under the antitrust laws to the effect that a defendant has violated said laws shall be prima facie evidence against such defendant in any action or proceeding brought by any other party against such defendant...
Page 133 - Commission shall acquire the whole or any part of the assets of one or more corporations engaged in commerce, where in any line of commerce in any section of the country, the effect of such acquisition, of such stocks or assets, or of the use of such stock by the voting or granting of proxies or otherwise, may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly.
Page 20 - ... filing such reports or answers in writing. Such reports and answers shall be made under oath, or otherwise, as the commission may prescribe, and shall be filed with the commission within such reasonable period as the commission may prescribe, unless additional time be granted in any case by the commission.
Page 86 - Whenever a final decree has been entered against any defendant corporation In any suit brought by the United States to prevent and restrain any violation of the antitrust Acts, to make investigation, upon its own Initiative, of the manner in which the decree has been or is being carried out, and upon the application of the Attorney General It shall be its duty to make such investigation.
Page 19 - ... except partnerships, which is organized to carry on business for its own profit or that of its members. " Documentary evidence " means all documents, papers, and correspondence in existence at and after the passage of this Act.
Page 111 - ... every private right of action arising under said laws and based in whole or in part on any matter complained of in said suit or proceeding shall be suspended during the pendency thereof.
Page 82 - ... where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
Page 146 - That to vitiate a combination, such as the act of Congress condemns, it need not be shown that the combination, in fact, results or will result in a total suppression of trade or in a complete monopoly. but it is only essential to show that by its necessary operation it tends to restrain interstate or international trade or commerce or tends to create a monopoly in such trade or commerce and to deprive the public of the advantages that flow from free competition...

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