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...Vindictive Action." Last week the Star used one of its front-page headlines for a story about itself: THE U.S. ACCUSES THE STAR. Star President Roberts and Advertising Director Emil A. Sees were indicted on antitrust charges. The Star, charged the Government, had forced advertisers to 1) put more ads than they wanted in the Star and Times to get any space at all, 2) buy ads on its TV & radio stations or suffer rate penalties in the papers, and 3) take ads in morning, evening and Sunday papers as a unit. Furthermore, said the Government, the Star forced subscribers...
...Government's case against the Star is similar to the antitrust suit (TIME, June 9) it won against the unit ad rate used by the New Orleans Times-Picayune (and some 170 other U.S. dailies). Even if the verdict against the Times-Picayune is upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, Roberts expects to fight the Star's case right up to the top. Said he: "There will be no effort ... to quash or delay the antitrust indictment...
...vicarious pleasures is reading other people's mail. In Chicago last week, the antitrust suit involving Du Pont and General Motors provided the Government with an opportunity to air confidential letters dating back 30 years and more. No matter what the letters proved or disproved about the Government's charge that Du Font's control of G.M. restricts competition, there was no doubt that they were fascinating footnotes to the growth of Du Pont...
Last week the disagreeing lawyers broadly agreed that a court decision which wrought an overnight change would be harmful. The Department of Justice, as a "friend of the court," reminded the Justices that the court often provides for "gradual relocation" in its sweeping antitrust decrees. N.A.A.C.P. Lawyer Marshall suggested that, once the principle of non-segregation is established, the Southern school boards might soften the blow by redistricting (as does many a Northern school board) so that most Negroes would attend one school and most whites another. (This proposal Frankfurter contemptuously rated as "gerrymandering.") How thorny the Supreme Court...
...history, only seven Cabinet nominees have been rejected by the Senate. The last one: Charles B. Warren, Michigan "sugar trust" lawyer nominated for Attorney General by Calvin Coolidge in 1925. He was turned down by a G.O.P. Senate which feared he would not enforce antitrust laws fairly...