Word: anti-trust
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...first filed suit against the Mellon company in 1928. That suit was dismissed. Three years later Baush marched into court with a bill of particulars, accusing Aluminum Co. of nearly every unfair business practice imaginable. Baush asked $3,000,000 in damages, $6,000,000 punitive penalties under the Anti-Trust laws. After a three-month trial, a New Haven jury gave Aluminum the verdict. On appeal Baush won a retrial...
...cabinet, Franklin Roosevelt last week had to tread on some good New Deal toes: 1) To the pain of trust-hating disciples of Felix Frankfurter, Assistant Secretary of Commerce John Dickinson, able young lawyer but no reckless reformer, became Assistant Attorney General, in charge of anti-trust prosecutions to bolster Attorney General Cummings' shaky legal staff. 2) To the suppressed displeasure of Secretary Ickes, Charles West, Presidential contact-man with Congress, was made Undersecretary of the Interior...
...Fortnight ago the House passed the resolution, diluting it with more water by providing that no codes should be imposed or enforced but leaving the way open for employers to make voluntary codes and thereby gain exemption from anti-trust laws...
...after an all-night session with Huey Long, the Senate again amended the resolution, extracting the last drop of milk. In future any voluntary codes may cover hours of work and rates of pay but do not protect coded industries "against existing laws, including the anti-trust laws...
...Enforcement, after a two-year lapse, of the anti-trust laws pertaining to practices acting in restraint of trade...