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...Last week, as he rose to address 300 newsmen at Washington's National Press Club, Du Pont President Crawford H. Greenewalt got a chance to let the Justice Department have it at close range. Just seven places down the speaker's table sat Assistant Attorney General Herbert Bergson, boss of the Justice Department's antitrust division...
...Bergson smiled self-consciously, Greenewalt ripped into the department: "We have had on our books for many years the Sherman antitrust law. The Du Pont Company is ... heartily in favor of that law . . . Unfortunately . . . the ideology of enforcement is left to the shifting winds of political thought . . . Business frequently finds itself attacked for acts done many years ago in all good faith and with the best legal advice available...
When Greenewalt finished, a question came from the floor: "If Du Pont is in favor of the Sherman act, then why has Du Pont been indicted for violating it?" Greenewalt turned to Bergson, saying:'Im not sure if that is a question for me or for Mr. Bergson." In answer, Trustbuster Bergson gave him only a frozen smile...
Such anachronisms did not bother antitrust's busy boss, Assistant Attorney General Herbert A. Bergson. His department had $3,400,000 given by the last Congress, more money than it had ever had. With it, Bergson predicted last week that he would outbust Trustbuster Teddy Roosevelt, who had gone after Du Pont in 1907. Said Bergson: "We have a lot more cases in the mill than they had then...
...Also, as part of its campaign strategy, the Administration is expected to let fly with a few trustbusting suits where they will do some vote-getting good (with an eye on the farm vote, it plans to move against farm machinery manufacturers soon). In 39-year-old Herbert Bergson the Administration thought it had a man who would be a good politico-legal trustbuster...