FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSIONERS

(December 1948)

ROBERT ELLIOTT FREER, of Ohio; Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington; lawyer; born in Madisonville (Cincinnati), Ohio, January 30, 1896; son of Guy Metcalf and May (Dunlap) Freer; attended Ohio State University; A. B., George Washington University; LL. B., Cincinnati Law School (University of Cincinnati), 1917; LL. M., Washington College of Law; served in France in World War I, 1918-19, with 324th Machine Gun Battalion; major of Infantry, U. S. National Guard (Ohio) and Officers Reserve Corps, to 1925; married Mrs. Alice Barry Sullivan, LL. B., of Boston, Mass.; four children; Barry, Jocelyn (Mrs. Norman C. Keith), Alice, Jr., and Robert E., Jr.; member of Bar of Ohio, Virginia, District of Columbia, and of United States Supreme Court; practiced law in Cincinnati, 1917 and 1919-25; attorney, Interstate Commerce Commission, 1925-33; research assistant and attorney, Federal Coordinator of Transportation, 1933-35; special counsel, U. S. Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce, Seventy-Fourth Congress, First Session (January-August, 1935); appointed member of Federal Trade Commission by President Roosevelt, August 24, 1935, confirmed by U. S. Senate on the same day and entered on duty August 27, 1935 (succeeding Commissioner George C. Mathews); reappointed September 3, 1938, for term ending September 25, 1945; reappointed by President Truman, November 14, 1945, for term ending September 25, 1952; chairman of Federal Trade Commission, 1939, 1944 and 1948; professor of law at St. Xavier College (Xavier University), 1922, and Washington College of Law, 1926-38; lecturer in railway economics, 1933, and public law, 1943, American University Graduate School; consultant, Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration since 1938; trustee, the George Washington University, and chairman, the George Washington Victory Council; U. S. delegate, Eighth American Scientific Congress, 1940, and International Statistical Conferences, 1947; National president, Federal Bar Association, 1938-39; National director, Public Information Program, American Bar Association, 1942-43; member of House of Delegates, American Bar Association, 1945-46; member of Council of International and Comparative Law Section, American Bar Association, 1945-48; and Chairman of its Committee on International Trade Regulation, 1943-48; Republican; Mason; Methodist (member, official board, Foundry Church); legal fraternities, Phi Alpha Delta and Order of the Coif; member, University (board of governors), Inquirendo, Split Rock Gun, Kenwood Golf and Country, and Army-Navy Country clubs; legal residence, Cincinnati, Ohio; Washington residence, 116 Woodlawn Ave., Kenwood, Chevy Chase 15, Md.

LOWELL BLAKE MASON, of Illinois; Vice Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington; lawyer; born Chicago, July 25, 1893; son of William E. and Edith J. (White) Mason; educated in grammar school and John Marshall High School, Chicago; LL. B., Northwestern University, 1914; married Grace F. Gilbert, 1914; children, William E., III, Barbara Grace, Nancy Gilbert, Lowell B., Jr.; married Rose d'Amore, 1938; one child, Jimilu; admitted to Illinois Bar, 1914, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, 1936, Chicago Bar Association; practiced law in Chicago and Washington, D. C.; assistant corporation counsel, city of Chicago, 1916; member, Illinois Senate, 1922-30; member, First Illinois State Aviation Commission, 1927; general counsel, National Industrial Review Board (Darrow Board), 1934; counsel, U. S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee investigating NRA, 1935; counsel, U. S. Senate Interstate Commerce Subcommittee, 1936; appointed member of Federal Trade Commission by President Truman, October 3, 1945, and entered upon duties October 15, 1945; Republican; Unitarian; Masonic Lodge; home, 370 Park Boulevard, Glen Ellyn, Ill.; Washington residence, 5117 Chevy Chase Parkway, D. C.

GARLAND S. FERGUSON, of North Carolina, Democrat; member of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington; lawyer; born in Waynesville, N. C., May 30, 1878, son of Garland S. Ferguson, former judge of Superior Court of North Carolina; married Margaret Merrimon, of Greensboro, N. C.; attended United States Naval Academy and University of North Carolina, graduating in law from the university in 1900; LL. D., University of North Carolina, 1939; practiced law in Waynesville, 1900-1902; in Greensboro, 1902-18; referee in

bankruptcy, United States District Court, Western District of North Carolina, 1908-18; special counsel, Southern Railway, Greensboro, 1908-18; assistant general counsel, Newport News Shipbuilding Co., Washington, 1918-21; resumed practice of law in Greensboro, 1921; appointed by President Coolidge member of the Federal Trade Commission, November 12, 1927, for term ending September 25, 1934, succeeding Commissioner (former U. S. Senator) John F. Nugent; entered on duty November 14, 1927; reappointed by President Roosevelt January 10, 1935 (recess appointment September 1934), for term ending September 25, 1941; confirmed by Senate January 28, 1935; reappointed by President Roosevelt July 7, 1941; confirmed by the Senate July 15, 1941; Chairman of Federal Trade Commission, 1930, 1934, 1938, 1943, and 1947; member, National Emergency Council, 1934; member, Temporary National Economic Committee, 1938-41; chairman, subcommittee, Temporary National Economic Committee, 1939; legal residence, Greensboro, N. C.; Washington residence, Wyoming Apartments.

EWIN LAMAR DAVIS, of Tennessee; member of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington; born, Bedford County, Tenn., February 5, 1876; educated in various schools, including the famous Webb School and Vanderbilt University; graduated from Columbian (now George Washington) University Law School in 1899 with degree of LL. B.; began active practice of law in 1899; married Carolyn Windsor, of Americus, Ga., in 1898, and has five children; Presidential elector in 1904; judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit of Tennessee (nine counties), 1910 to 1918; chairman of the district exemption board for the Middle District of Tennessee, 1917-18; elected to the Sixty-sixth, Sixty-seventh, Sixty-eighth, Sixtyninth, Seventieth, Seventy-first and Seventy-second Congresses of the United States, 1919 to 1933; Chairman, Committee on Merchant Marine, Radio, and Fisheries during Seventy-second Congress; appointed by President Roosevelt as a member of the Federal Trade Commission, May 23, 1933, for term ending September 25, 1939; promptly confirmed by Senate and entered on duty May 26, 1933; reappointed by President Roosevelt, July 14, 1939, and promptly and unanimously confirmed by the Senate for term commencing September 26, 1939, and ending September 25, 1946; reappointed by President Truman, July 23, 1946, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate the next day, for term commencing September 26, 1946, and ending September 25, 1953; Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, 1935, 1940, and 1945; member of National Emergency Council 1935; member of American National Committee, Third World Power Conference, 1936; alternate member, Temporary National Economic Committee, 1938 to 1941; Democrat; member of bar, all courts of Tennessee, District of Columbia and United States Supreme Court; American, District of Columbia, Federal, and George Washington Bar Associations; received the George Washington University alumni achievement award for notable achievement in law, 1945; Phi Delta Phi Legal Fraternity, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity; Mason (thirty-second degree); legal residence, Tullahoma, Tenn.; Washington residence, 2150 Wyoming Avenue. WILLIAM A. AYRES, of Kansas; member of the Federal Trade Commission, Washington; lawyer; born in Elizabethtown, Ill., April 19, 1867; son of William and Catherine (Drum) Ayres; moved to Sedgewick County, Kans., 1881; attended Garfield (now Friends) University, Wichita, Kans., 1888-90; LL. D., Friends University, June 1, 1942; married Dula Pease, of Wichita, December 30, 1896, who died in July, 1934; has three daughters; admitted to Kansas Bar, 1893, practicing in Wichita, member of Ayres, Cowan, McCorkle & Fair; clerk, court of appeals, Kansas, 1897-1901; prosecuting attorney, Sedgewick County, 1907–11; elected Representative in U. S. Congress from the Eighth (now Fifth) Congressional District, Kansas, serving in the Sixty-fourth to Sixty-sixth Congresses, 1915-21, and Sixty-eighth to Seventy-third Congresses, 1923-34; member of Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives; renominated as candidate for election to Seventy-Fourth Congress in August 1934 primaries, but declined to run and resigned as Congressman to accept appointment by President Roosevelt, June 30, 1934, to membership in the Federal Trade Commission to succeed Commissioner James M. Landis, resigned, for the term ending September 25, 1940; entered on duty August 23, 1934; reappointed by President Roosevelt on May 14, 1940, and promptly and unanimously confirmed by the Senate for term commencing September 26, 1940, and ending September 25, 1947; reappointed by President Truman, June 26, 1947, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate, July 23, 1947, for the term commencing September 26, 1947, and ending September 25, 1954; Chairman of Federal Trade Commission, 1937, 1942, and 1946; member of Christian Church; Mason (thirty-third degree, Shriner); Democrat; legal residence, Wichita, Kans.; Washington residence, the KennedyWarren. 1

PREFACE

This third volume of "Statutes and Decisions Pertaining to the Federal Trade Commission" includes the statutes administered by the Commission and court decisions construing them during the years 1944-48, inclusive. It contains all cases to which the Commission was a party, including such suits prosecuted under the Federal Trade Commission Act as amended in 1938, and the Clayton Act as amended by the Robinson-Patman Act of 1936.

The bracketed bold-face figures in the text of Supreme Court cases are the page numbers of the official United States reports. In the opinions of the other courts, they indicate pagination in the respective official reporters, and in the text of the statutes they are the page numbers of the United States Statutes at Large.

Grateful acknowledgment is made of the courtesy of the West Publishing Co. of St. Paul in again granting permission to use their copyrighted syllabi of cases appearing here.

THE COMPILER.