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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Weapon. For the first time in history, the antitrust division is ready, willing, able. In Theodore Roosevelt's trust-blustering days-13 years after the passage of the antitrust act-the U. S. had five lawyers and four stenographers to enforce action on the law. In 1933 there were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

One-fourth of all antitrust complaints have been about the building industry, where restraints of trade are found from cellar to roof: producers of building materials, distributors, contractors, subcontractors, labor unions, and in local legislative restraints of trade, such as building "regulations" that only thinly veil protective tariffs set up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

With building costs flexible up but not down, material-makers have priced themselves out of the market. More than half the U. S. citizenry cannot afford a home costing more than $4,000-last year only 15% of all homes built were in that price range, and that figure was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Anti-Building Boom | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

Bitter was the feud in the all-Negro town of Mound Bayou, Miss., between Eugene P. Booze, Republican boss, and his sister-in-law Estelle Montgomery. Cause: both claimed ownership of the house in which Booze and his family lived. Eugene Booze apparently won the argument last month: in an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Booze Is Dead | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

To Eugene Booze, Mound Bayou's richest citizen, owner of thousands of acres of cotton and timber land, the end of all arguments came last week. After his sister-in-law's shooting, he was looked on askance by many a citizen of Mound Bayou. One night last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSISSIPPI: Booze Is Dead | 11/20/1939 | See Source »

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