Word: antitrust
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision, the court ruled that Du Pont's 23 per cent stock interest in GM violates the Clayton Antitrust...
...that the real drive to escape Nasser's dominance was being planned. There 30 of the world's top oil industrialists gathered at the urging of Standard Oil (N.J.) President Monroe Jackson Rathbone. They talked privately, partly because they had to be wary of defying the U.S. antitrust laws and partly because they have learned that in the Middle East their aims are sometimes best achieved by not loudly proclaiming them...
...courts. ¶Prodded and pushed federal courts toward clearing their swamped dockets, e.g., by recommending younger judges, by urging judges to halve their traditional summer-long vacations. ¶Won more criminal tax convictions than in the previous twelve years (2,272 against 2,260). ¶Built up an outstanding antitrust record, based not on penalizing growth but on protecting the right of all to grow. ¶ Attacked Communists with such legal skill that Communist Party Boss William Z. Foster was moved to say: "The attack by the Government upon the party has been directly responsible for the bulk...
...Without these achievements he could not have written his record. But the achievements in method were not enough. The job of Attorney General demands a special sort of courage. It requires a man willing to walk a lonely road in applying the laws in such vital fields as security, antitrust and civil rights, the laws that reach dramatically into the very blood and muscle of the nation...
Trustbusting. At the outset of the Eisenhower Administration, Democrats began watching and waiting for a breakdown in antitrust enforcement. They are still watching and waiting. Relying heavily on the consent decree to accomplish the Government's purpose while avoiding long, costly court battles, Brownell's Justice Department has taken on such business giants as General Motors, International Business Machines, Pan American-Grace Airways and the Radio Corp. of America. General Lucius Clay, chairman of the Continental Can Co. and one of President Eisenhower's closest friends and advisers. is indignant at two antitrust suits filed against...