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Bill Taft: “This fact will justify the Federal Government in granting a Federal charter to such a combination to make and sell in…”

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This fact will justify the Federal Government in granting a Federal charter to such a combination to make and sell in interstate and foreign commerce the products of useful manufacture under such limitations as will secure a compliance with the anti-trust law.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft argues for federal charters for combinations engaged in interstate and foreign commerce under anti-trust law compliance.

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