Word: caffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Aluminum Co. of America is not an illegal monopoly. So last week said Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey, in the first third of his marathon decision on the longest court trial in U.S. history...
Bright-eyed, scrawny-necked, 72-year-old Judge Caffey had sat through one year and 18,331 pages of Government testimony to the effect that Alcoa was a trade-restrainer, should be broken up into several parts. He had sat through another 14 months and 22,377 pages of Alcoa defense. Then, while exhibits and interrogations brought the record to 58,000 pages, Judge Caffey took 5½ months off to study it and make up his mind...
From his huge oak bench high in Manhattan's gold-topped Federal courthouse, aging Judge Francis Gordon Caffey looked down last week upon a courtroom empty save for two dozen polite attorneys. Their faces were familiar to him. He had been looking at them for 22 months (minus a few recesses) while the Government's anti-trust suit against big Aluminum Co. of America (TIME, July 3) droned on. To the bench came youthful Defense Counsel Edgar Baker. "Your Honor," he petitioned, "I would like to be excused. I have heard only ten minutes ago that I have...