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Word: caffey (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning of June 1, 1938, black-robed Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down from his huge bench in Manhattan's gleaming new U. S. courthouse upon a bank of lawyers. Standing at the flat, mahogany counsel table with a sheaf of notes, earnest, tousle-headed Walter Lyman Rice, trust-busting Special Assistant to the U. S. Attorney General, was ready to give his opening outline of a lawsuit to dissolve $253,000,000 Aluminum Co. of America as a monopoly in restraint of trade...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Halfway Mark | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Judge Caffey put in a word first. Said he: "May I inject the remark that I am most helped by statements which omit the trees and show me the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Halfway Mark | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

Since that day, more than a year ago, the new courthouse has begun to dull with a patina of smoke and weather, the Sixth Avenue Elevated has been torn down, the "World of Tomorrow" on Flushing Meadows has grown up into a World's Fair. But Judge Caffey is still hearing the same lawsuit, still looking down upon the same bank of lawyers. On June 1, a year to the day from the opening of the case, the U. S. rested. Last week, Alcoa launched its defense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Halfway Mark | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Government's case many a tree had been shown Judge Caffey in 18,331 pages of evidence taken in court. Out of these many trees, the Government's smart young men tried to make a forest by presenting a 291-page brief, for Judge Caffey to digest while the defense was in process. He needed a good digestion. With 159 court days behind it, the Alcoa case was last week already the longest trust-busting suit in U. S. history. Only comparable suits in duration and importance were the 50-day prosecution of the Sugar Institute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE GOVERNMENT: Halfway Mark | 7/3/1939 | See Source »

...Lawyer Rice rose to make his opening remarks, Judge Caffey interrupted: "May I inject the remark that I am most helped by statements which omit the trees and show me the forest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Alcoa Forest | 6/13/1938 | See Source »

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