Abram F. Myers (1889 – after July 1960) was the chair of the

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(FTC) from December 1, 1928 to January 15, 1929,List of Commissioners, Chairwomen, and Chairmen of the Federal Trade Commission: 1915-2018 (as of November 2018)
and thereafter general counsel and board chairman of the Allied States Association of Motion Picture Exhibitors (ASAMPE) until July 1960."In the News", ''Los Angeles Evening Citizen News'' (July 11, 1960), p. 16. Born in

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,"Name Iowan As Federal Trade Commissioner", ''The Des Moines Register'' (July 31, 1926), p. 16. Myers joined the

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in a sub-clerical position, and received a law degree from the

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in 1912. He eventually became a senior attorney on the department before receiving a

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to the FTC by President

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in July 1926. Myers served until 1929, chairing the commission in his final year, when he resigned to serve in his dual roles with ASAMPE, where he was sometimes regarded as "one of the film industry's controversial figures", holding those positions from 1929 until his resignation in July 1960. In 1943, Abrams wrote a review of the 1943 film ''

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'' for the publication ''Harrison's Reports''; as the film was produced by the publisher of this periodical,

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, this was their first review acknowledged not to have been written by Harrison.

References

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