 | Dexter Merriam Keezer, Addison Thayer Cutler, Frank Richardson Garfield - Economics - 1928 - 736 pages
...observation that "people of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices." 4 Of these contrivances perhaps the most prevalent have been arrangements to reduce competition. It... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance - 1935 - 830 pages
...statement then: People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices. Mr. WILLIAMS. I do not think that is so. I do not know whom you are reading from. Senator BLACK. I... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Corporations - 1937 - 546 pages
...when he wrote, "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices." I know the defense which is made for both open-price arrangements and the so-called basing point system.... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Corporations - 1937 - 846 pages
...when he wrote, ''People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices." I know the defense which is made for both open-price arrangements and the so-called basing point system.... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - United States - 1939 - 1692 pages
...language, I am sure. "People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible to prevent such meeting? by any law which could either be executed or would be consistent... | |
 | Big business - 1940 - 768 pages
...remarked in 1776, ''People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices." 2* COST ACCOUNTING Conspicuous among association activities is the promotion of cost accounting, or,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House. Temporary National Economic Committee - 1941 - 530 pages
...when he says: * * * people of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices,55 " Id. at 703. " Smith. Wealth of Nations (Ed. Cannan) I, 130. but there is always a danger... | |
 | Big business - 1941 - 1496 pages
...of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment and diversion but the conversation end.* in a conspiracy against the public or in some contrivance to raise prices,** M (1927). 274 U. 9.693. " Id. at 703. but there is always a danger when people of the same trade get... | |
 | Herman Roodenburg, Pieter Spierenburg, Clive Emsley, Eric Arthur Johnson - History - 2004 - 392 pages
...of Nations: 176 People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some conversation to raise prices. It is impossible to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could... | |
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People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. 
