Chapter Six
Photos
Photographs of people, places, and things mentioned in chapter six. The number on the left indicates the page on which the content of the photo is mentioned in the book. Many of the photos also link to additional material.
Page 662 -- The FTC. Figure 6-1 shows the organizational structure of the agency; here are photos of its physical structure. You can just make out the base of one of the Man Controlling Trade sculptures (see photos for Chapter 1) behind the trees to the left of the green traffic light and above the right-most orange cones. The link will take you to the FTC website.
This is the FTC hearing room, located on the top floor at the eastern (rounded) end of the building. The windows behind the bench correspond to the top windows in the photo to the left.
Another view of the hearing room.
Like many buildings of that era (the building was completed in 1938), the FTC headquarters has an interior courtyard.
One of the doors. The frieze depicts agriculture; it is one of three representing aspects of trade.
A close-up of the agriculture frieze.
Frieze #2: shipping.
Frieze #3: international trade.
A radiator cover from inside the building.
Page 674 -- Sen. Henry Bellmon, who introduced the Bellmon Amendment (click on photo), which led to the Bellmon Review. Sen. Bellmon (R-OK) sandwiched two terms in the Senate between stints as Governor of Oklahoma. He was well-known as a "fiscal conservative" and "budget hawk."
Page 686 -- A 1971 ad from the Washington Post for Cinderella Career & Finishing School (apparently quite the full-service operation). The FTC's opinion (click on link and scroll down to p. 543) goes into some detail about Cinderella's ads, including a brochure that managed to be not only "false, misleading and deceptive" (the statutory standard) but an artifact of its time and deeply offensive: "Miracles after sundown--Drab little typist becomes lovely airline stewardess! Overweight order clerk now a fashion counselor! 'No-date' steno becomes belle of the office! High school graduate wins success in television! Middle-age widow looks ten years younger--gets exciting new job! Shy librarian gets three raises and a beau! Factory worker becomes studio receptionist!"
Page 688 -- Lina Khan, Amazon's bete noire. Kahn's 2017 student Note in the Yale Law Journal, "Amazon's Antitrust Paradox" (click on the photo to access it), argued that Amazon's "structure and conduct pose anticompetitive concerns" that merit but had so far not received antitrust scrutiny. It may be the most influential and widely cited student article ever. And it is part of the explanation for the recusal motion reproduced in the casebook.
Page 690 -- Michael Pertschuck, Chair of the FTC from 1977-1981 and a member until 1984, whose speechifying was at issue in Association of National Advertisers. Wrote the NY Tines, in a November 2022 obituary to which the photo links: "Probably more than any other individual, he was responsible for the government’s placing warning labels on cigarettes, banning tobacco advertising from television and radio, requiring seatbelts in cars and putting in place other consumer protections — all by helping to draft those measures into law as the chief counsel and staff director of the Senate Commerce Committee and later as the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission under President Jimmy Carter."