Word: antitrusters
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Braves had a right to forsake Milwaukee for the greener lettuce in Atlanta. Judge Roller, a pretty hot fan himself, said no. After a six-week trial and 7,000 pages of testimony, he ruled that the National League had violated Wisconsin's "little Sherman" antitrust laws. The league, said Roller, had conspired to "control and allocate" players, to "assign exclusive territorial rights and privileges," and to "limit the number of members in the National League"-thereby "substantially" restraining Wisconsin's trade and commerce. He fined the league $5,000 and each of its ten teams another...
...assistant general counsel for the American Bankers Association and later as an attorney for First National Bank of Chicago. President Kennedy named him comptroller of the currency and gave him orders to start stirring things up. Saxon tripped at the outset by tangling with Bobby Kennedy's antitrust division at the Justice Department-but patched up the quarrel before he endangered his tenure...
...their own safety through a board made up of four auto-company presidents and an outside chairman. "Whatever has happened in the past," said Bugas, "this industry is alive and awake-we truly are." He also suggested that the industry would have pooled its safety information, but it feared antitrust prosecution. He contended that the Justice Department has been investigating the companies for their role in developing antipollution devices for auto exhausts...
Next day, Committee Chairman Warren Magnuson fired back at Bugas' testimony by reading part of a letter from U.S. Antitrust Chief Donald F. Turner. The Justice Department, said Turner, has indeed been investigating the auto companies-because of their "cooperative efforts to suppress, not to promote, the utilization of auto emission devices." Moreover, said Turner, the antitrust law has not barred agreements among companies "to develop safety devices or to exchange information concerning standards where joint efforts seem necessary and constructive and are not accompanied by unduly restrictive collateral agreements...
...Dubious Claims." Garfinckel's management filed an antitrust suit in Federal Court in Washington, charging that a Genesco takeover would suppress or reduce competition among clothing and retail shops in New York, Washington and other cities. Garfinckel's asked for treble damages for the $500,000 it claimed it had already lost in business and property value because of Jarman's takeover efforts...