The United States of America v. Charles B. Grady

FINNEGAN, Circuit Judge.

Congress amended the Grain Futures Act, 1 June 15, 1936, by passing the Commodity Exchange Act 2 for the purpose of preventing and removing obstructions and burdens upon interstate commerce in grains and other commodities by regulating transactions therein on commodity futures exchanges. This 1936 legislation, and subsequent further amenda-tory provisions, enlarged governmental control over commodity exchanges in a fashion comparable to supervision of security exchanges. Grady, defendant, has been tried three times under an eight count 3 information charging violations…