Word: caffey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Victory for Antitrust; The decision, written by liberal Judge Learned Hand, reversed Manhattan's famed ad-libbing judge, Francis Gordon Caffey. Back in 1941 Judge Caffey, who had heard the testimony and arguments, cleared Alcoa of all the Government's charges. It took him ten days to deliver his opinion, took stenographers 737 pages to set it down...
...last week's opinion, there was still some comfort for Alcoa and Judge Caffey. The court found no proof that: 1) Alcoa had monopolized bauxite deposits or waterpower sites; or 2) Alcoa and Aluminium, Ltd., had any corporate relationship, even though the Mellon family and Alfred Vining Davis owned a controlling interest in both...
...three years, Thurman Arnold, then Assistant Attorney General, tried to prove in an anti-trust suit still pending before the U.S. Supreme Court that Aluminium, Ltd. was a subsidiary of Alcoa. In his decision Judge Francis G. Caffey of the U.S. District Court in New York held that there is no financial connection between the two companies...
...Crimson insists on referring to ALCOA as a monopoly, it would seem only fair that it should add that a Federal Judge, Francis G. Caffey, after presiding over the anti-trust proceedings against the company, has ruled that it was not a monopoly, and thus allow the readers the opportunity of choosing their own authority. Roy Potter Perry...
...party (through Aluminium Ltd.) to an international cartel, had conspired to fix prices, divide markets, keep competitors from entering the field, and restrict imports were all rejected (although certain to be aired again before the Supreme Court). "Not only has the Government failed to establish the charge," said Judge Caffey, "but the evidence is convincing the other way." Because of uncertainties about materials available, automakers last week put a brand-new phrase in their ads: "Specifications subject to change without notice...