Word: clark
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Also Up: Hot Potatoes. All this caused an unseemly bit of scurrying in Washington. Attorney General Tom Clark hastily ordered his understaffed antitrust division to get hot after collusion in price gouging. Tom Clark blustered that jail terms were in store for businessmen who conspired to boost prices in food, clothing and housing...
...Hits: Two Errors. The press and the public had no cheers for the investigations, and hardly anybody thought that much would come of them. President Truman gave Tom Clark's campaign his blessing, but he did not think it was likely that it would bring about price reductions. It was also not likely to turn up many hot profiteering conspiracies. The truth was that Tom Clark's Justice Department had already investigated some of the thousands of complaints received since OPA's death and had dredged up nothing that really looked like an air-tight price-rigging...
Columnist Marquis Childs, who does not often scold the Truman Administration, had an acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
...kept sniping at the bill's provision prohibiting political action in dues-supported union papers. In Baltimore last month, the C.I.O. backed a winning candidate for a vacant congressional seat and thus invited a court test of the political-activity clauses of the law. But Attorney General Tom Clark did nothing. Last week, in Pennsylvania, C.I.O. tried again...
Open class entries--Arthur, Bennett, Chung, Clark, Kraus, Shutt, Sicular, Wise...