Word: antitrusters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jackson Park Theater could. The four well-heeled sons and daughters of Millionaire Builder Edward I. Bloom, who own and operate the theater, started suit in 1942 under the antitrust act. They claimed that they could not bid on first-run films in a free market...
...monopoly union, dealing with substantially all production in the industry, asserts as its future policy that it aims to settle the problems of wages, prices and profits for the entire industry around the bargaining table. ... [If this happens] our antitrust laws, which require competition and forbid collusive combinations between labor and management, must fall...
...After 1902's famed Danbury Hatters strike, Lawyer Merritt sued the A.F. of L. hatter's union under the antitrust laws, won the company a judgment of more than $200,000 against 191 union members...
Said little A.P. Member Kerney, on his editorial page: "The supporters of [the Chicago Tribune's publisher] McCormick now are preparing petitions to Congress to exempt news agencies from the antitrust laws. This is an unfortunate attempt to gain special favor. . . . Congress should turn [it] down. Freedom of the press . . . is not a license to newspapers to run their businesses apart from the rest of America. . . . It should be treated by the press . . . as the sacred trust which...
...decision the court flatly rejected the recommendation of the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice. The department had argued that sale to the roads would set up a new monopoly, strongly recommended selling to a group made up of Alleghany Corp.'s Robert Young, Allan Kirby, and Cleveland's Otis & Co. This group had promised to spend $500,000,000 to spruce up the service. And Bob Young had talked of coast-to-coast service, with no changes at Chicago...