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Calvin Coolidge: Broadly speaking, the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over interstate commerce, that is jurisdiction over the…

On the recordAugust 26, 1926
Broadly speaking, the Federal Trade Commission has jurisdiction over interstate commerce, that is jurisdiction over the commodity that an individual or a state corporation has created and which they propose to dispose of through the channels of interstate commerce, and having jurisdiction over the product of the corporation is quite a different thing than having jurisdiction over the finances and the corporate practices of the corporation.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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