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Well-taken was his remark. In its attempt to dissolve $253,000,000 Alcoa as a monopoly in restraint of trade, the Government filed suit April 23, 1937, kicked off on June 1, 1938. Year later it rested its case, and the defense took the ball. It still has it. In that time the courthouse, which was brand-new when the case was filed, has aged with the processes of jurisprudence; Austria, Czecho-Slovakia and Poland have disappeared; World War II began; two of the Government attorneys took wives; another became a father; two of the original 63 Alcoa defendants...
...taken in court. Out of these many trees, the Government's smart young men tried to make a forest by presenting a 291-page brief, for Judge Caffey to digest while the defense was in process. He needed a good digestion. With 159 court days behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute in 1933, the 120-day prosecution which resulted in the dissolution of the old Standard...
...Alcoa suit's long-distance mark for consecutive testimony was set last spring by Edward K. Davis, publicity-shy president of Aluminium Limited of Canada. Younger brother (59) of Alcoa's Board Chairman Arthur Vining Davis, Mr. Davis held the stand for six and a half weeks while the Government went after him hammer & tongs trying to show that Aluminium Ltd. is not a separate, independent corporation, but an international stooge set up by Alcoa. When he was finally excused, Harvardman Davis was glad to get back to his 400-acre estate on Cape Cod, where he raises...
...trees in the Federal forest is the contention that when Arthur Vining Davis organized Aluminium Ltd. in 1928, he had no intention of making it a competitor of Alcoa. What he did want, the Government said, was to reach through Aluminium Ltd. into the world aluminum cartel and share international trade with Swiss, German, French and British aluminum monopolies on a nice, friendly basis, with an ugly throat-cutting all laid out for any upstart competitors...
Chief contentions in the Government's case which Alcoa set out last week to rebut...