Word: antitrusters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being named Deputy Attorney General. "I didn't get into the campaign with the idea of getting a job," he said. But he happily took the position. As Bobby Kennedy's top aide, he directed 600 U.S. marshals in the 1961 Freedom Rider riots in Alabama, supervised antitrust cases, civil rights suits, and scouted and screened candidates for federal judgeships...
...Customers have been warning that a stoppage would only accelerate their drift to competitive materials such as plastics, aluminum, concrete, glass and wood. These were important pressures for settlement on both sides, but even heavier pressure came from the Kennedy Administration, whose powers over tax, labor and antitrust laws make quite a nutcracker. Sighed one union official: "Let's face it-we're going to be living with the Kennedys for a helluva long time." This, according to one insider, is what the Administration did: One day last December, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg had as his private lunch...
...mechanization of U.S. coal mines, opposed featherbedding, and kept the coal industry free of major strikes since 1952. He has also put the squeeze on small, uneconomic mines to such an extent that a year ago the U.M.W. was found guilty of violating -of all things - the Sherman Antitrust...
...commands 55.7% of the U.S.-made auto market. That is a company record, the highest in the industry since Henry Ford's model Ts got 60% in 1921, and more than enough to prompt some nervous glances from G.M. officials toward the U.S. Justice Department, whose antitrust division constantly eyes the affairs of the world's biggest manufacturer. This year G.M. has conspicuously dropped its usual practice of stepping up Chevrolet advertising as its sales increase. There have been no recent dealer incentive contests for fast-selling Pontiac. Oldsmobile or Buick...
...immediate goals of the new partnership generated no great debate: a $500 million crash school-building program to provide 200,000 classrooms for state schools; nationalization of the private power industry, one of Italy's less urgent economic necessities. Other proposals include tax reform, easier agricultural credit facilities, antitrust legislation...