Investigation of the Production, Transportation, and Marketing of Wool: Hearings Before the Special Committee to Investigate the Production, Transportation, and Marketing of Wool, United States Senate, Seventy-fifth Congress, Third Session - Seventy-seventh Congress, Second Session Pursuant to S. Res. 160 (74th Congress) and S. Res. 278 (75th Congress): Resolutions Providing for an Investigation of the Production, Transportation, and Marketing of Wool

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Página 821 - That the contracts of war risk insurance were valid when made is not questioned. As Congress had the power to authorize the Bureau of War Risk Insurance to issue them, the due process clause prohibits the United States from annulling them, unless, indeed, the action taken falls within the federal police power or some other paramount power.
Página 816 - person" includes an individual, corporation, partnership, association, or any other organized group of persons, or legal successor or representative of any of the foregoing, and includes the United States or any agency thereof, or any other government, or any of its political subdivisions, or any agency of any of the foregoing...
Página 825 - ... to eliminate and prevent profiteering, hoarding, manipulation, speculation, and other disruptive practices resulting from abnormal market conditions or scarcities...
Página 801 - Agriculture: (1) 110 per centum of the parity price for such commodity, adjusted by the Secretary of Agriculture for grade, location, and seasonal differentials...
Página 793 - ... to stabilize prices and to prevent speculative, unwarranted, and abnormal increases in prices and rents...
Página 819 - President for the protection of the interests of the Government, to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter made and to make advance, progress and other payments thereon, without regard to the provisions of law relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts...
Página 793 - ... to assure that defense appropriations are not dissipated by excessive prices; to protect persons with relatively fixed and limited incomes, consumers, wage earners, investors, and persons dependent on life insurance, annuities, and pensions, from undue impairment of their standard of living; to prevent hardships to persons engaged in business, to schools, universities and other institutions, and to the Federal, State, and local governments, which would result from abnormal increases in prices;...
Página 815 - It shall be unlawful, regardless of any contract, agreement, lease, or other obligation heretofore or hereafter entered into...
Página 819 - Government, to enter into contracts and into amendments or modifications of contracts heretofore or hereafter made and to make advance, progress and other payments thereon, without regard to the provisions of law relating to the making, performance, amendment. or modification of contracts whenever he deems such action would facilitate the prosecution of the war...
Página 819 - Government, to enter into contracts or into amendments or modifications, of contracts heretofore or hereafter made and to make advance payments thereon, without regard to other provisions of law relating to the making, performance, amendment, or modification of contracts, whenever he deems that such action would facilitate the national defense.