Word: bergsonism
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...grew up to study law in Athens and philosophy in Paris. Returning to Greece in 1914, he published the first of his nine novels. He has traveled in Spain, Russia, England, Egypt, China and Japan, and written books on all of them, together with philosophical treatises on Nietzsche and Bergson, ten plays centering on such figures as Christ, Ulysses and Julian the Apostate, and his own 33,333 line Odyssey, which begins where Homer's leaves...
...federal courtroom in Washington last week, the Government lost an important test case. Attorney General Herbert Brownell had charged Herbert A. Bergson, boss of the trustbusters under the Democratic Administration, with violating the "conflict of interest...
...Government lawyer, Brownell charged Bergson had prosecuted a price-fixing and monopoly suit against the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. and the Carborundum Co., and had refused to permit the U.S. Pipe Line Co. to offer price differentials to oil shippers on a proposed new pipeline. Later, as a private attorney, Bergson got a Justice Department clearance for a merger between Minnesota Mining and Carborundum (which did not take place), and worked out a method of getting the price differential permission for U.S. Pipe Line by guaranteeing that no shipper would use more than 20% of the line's capacity...
...Bergson denied that he had ever passed on the U.S. Pipe Line request, but his chief defense was that "claims" against the Government under the law could involve only money or property. Judge Charles F. McLaughlin agreed and, since he directed the jury to acquit Bergson, the Government cannot appeal. Any other interpretation, said the judge, "would lead to absurd results," and he took the occasion to lecture Government attorneys that the legal interpretation of criminal laws is "not a game to be played." Brownell, who feels that there is an ethical consideration as well, announced that he would...
...Herbert Bergson, trustbuster for the Truman Administration from 1948 to 1950, was indicted by a federal grand jury in a test of the "conflict of interests" statute, the first criminal indictment under the law. The charge: Lawyer Bergson represented three companies (Minnesota Mining & Mfg. Co., the Carborundum Co. of Niagara Falls and United States Pipe Line Co.) in actions before the antitrust department in 1951, after having acted against them while a trustbuster. The law prohibits a former federal official from representing clients with "claims" against the Government for two years if he was involved in the matter while...