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...over which he presided, Judge Medina has been much in the public eye. His personal appearances, to receive an honorary degree, make a speech or grace a platform, have kept him there. He is still having to hold his temper in check during the Government's antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses, now in its 14th month...
...first Government witness in the year-long antitrust suit against 17 investment banking houses (TIME, Dec. 11, 1950), Railroad Magnate Robert R. Young was in a saucy mood. Taking the stand to argue that competitive bidding on railroad bonds should be compulsory, Young last week fixed a cross-examining defense counsel with a stare. Said Young icily: "You are one of the few men here who is wiser than I am." Federal Judge Harold R. Medina cuffed him right back. Young's campaign to get competitive bidding on the Cincinnati Union Terminal Association in 1939, said Medina, had been...
...Sunbeam's suit was based on the Sherman antitrust law rather than fair-trade laws. Last week Sunbeam lost a decision in the U.S. circuit court of appeals when a verdict ordering two Sunbeam retailers to sell at fair-trade prices was reversed to bring it in line with the Supreme Court's decision...
Federal prosecutors brought suit yesterday against the National Football League, claiming its restrictions on television and radio broadcasts violate antitrust laws...
...advocates free competition, Lord McGowan, who headed I.C.I, for years, made no bones about his liking for cartels. "Unrestricted competition," he once said, brings "eventual chaos." But in 1944, the Justice Department decided that Lord McGowan and Du Pont had gone too far in restricting competition. It filed an antitrust action against the two (plus Du Pont's subsidiary, Remington Arms), charging that they had conspired to restrain trade by splitting up markets for a list of goods ranging from Cellophane and rayon to insecticides and synthetic rubber...