Extending the National Stolen Property Act to Confiscated Property: Hearings Before Subcommittee No. 3 ... on H.S. 9669 ... Subsequently Reported as S. 3936, Amended August 5, 6, 19401940 - 63 pages |
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21 cents amendment barrels per day bill BROWN category of stolen CHAIRMAN chattel claims Commission committee condemnation confiscated oil confiscatory law Congress contract Cordell Hull corporation crude oil deemed to include Department dollar diplomacy domestic Eastern States Petroleum effect enacted England equivalent erty expropriated foreign commerce foreign country foreign government foreign sovereign Government of Mexico HACKWORTH Hipolite Egg Co HOBBS House of Representatives HURLEY immunity imported from Mexico interest interstate commerce July 19 jurisdiction legislation LOGAN manner acceptable McCORMACK ment Mexican Government Motor Vehicle Theft National Railways National Stolen Property owners paid payment in United petitioner President of Mexico property so taken question Railways of Mexico Republic of Mexico Russian securities Senate Sinclair agreement sovereign immunity Standard Oil Co statement Stolen Property Act taken without payment Territories Texas thereof tion transportation treaty United States currency United States market word confiscated
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Page 6 - ... security" or any certificate of interest or participation in, temporary or interim certificate for, receipt for, guarantee of, or warrant or right to subscribe to or purchase, any of the foregoing.
Page 31 - Every sovereign state is bound to respect the independence of every other sovereign state, and the courts of one country will not sit in judgment on the acts of the government of another, done within its own territory.
Page 3 - Although activities may be intrastate in character when separately considered, if they have such a close and substantial relation to interstate commerce that their control is essential or appropriate to protect that commerce from burdens and obstructions, Congress cannot be denied the power to exercise that control.
Page 14 - Not to permit the formation or residence on its territory of any organization or group — and to prevent the activity on its territory of any organization or group, or of representatives or officials of any organization or group — which has as an aim the overthrow or the preparation for the overthrow of, or the bringing about by force of a change in, the political or social order of the whole or any part of the United States, its territories or possessions.
Page 3 - The congressional authority to protect interstate commerce from burdens and obstructions is not limited to transactions which can be deemed to be an essential part of a 'flow' of interstate or foreign commerce.
Page 5 - State or Territory or the District of Columbia, or to a foreign country, or who shall receive in any State or Territory or the District of Columbia...
Page 4 - That whoever shall transport or cause to be transported in interstate or foreign commerce a motor vehicle, knowing the same to have been stolen, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by imprisonment of not more than five years, or both.
Page 5 - security' means any note, stock, treasury stock, bond, debenture, evidence of indebtedness, certificate of interest or participation in any profit-sharing agreement, collateral-trust certificate...
Page 35 - ... imperil the amicable relations between governments and vex the peace of nations.
Page 27 - What another country has done in the way of taking over property of its nationals, and especially of its corporations, is not a matter for judicial consideration here. Such nationals must look to their own government for any redress to which they may be entitled.