Word: clayton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...trustees was to appoint Charles Evans Hughes counsel. To him will come not only the routine problems of passing on the legality of the triumvirate's financing, but the problem of facing the suit brought against Fox last fortnight by the Government, charging violation of the Clayton anti-trust law by its ownership of Loew...
...restraint of trade and commerce or monopolization of any part of trade or commerce. Though the law was aimed at large corporations, an attempt was made to apply it as an anti-Labor measure by arguing that a labor union was a conspiracy in restraint of trade. The Clayton Act (1914) restated and explained the Sherman Act and specifically declared that the labor of a human being was not a commodity and that labor unions were not trade-restraining conspiracies...
...Joseph Pershing (LL.B. and onetime military instructor, University of Nebraska), Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes (lawyer in Lincoln, 1887-94). Sculptor-Painter-Author-Politician John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum (went through the public schools). Author Willa Sibert Gather (B.A., U. of Neb.), Baseball Pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander, Cinemactor Harold Clayton Lloyd (born in Burchard, Neb.). The State has yet to nominate its two most famed sons for the Nebraska niches in National Statuary Hall at Washington...
Married. Elinor Patterson Codman, onetime beauteous nun of The Miracle, onetime reporter, and frequent flying companion of her father Joseph Medill Patterson, potent publisher of the Chicago Tribune, Liberty (nickel weekly), the New York Daily News (tabloid); and Griffith Mark, son of Chicago steelman Clayton Mark; at Greenwich, Conn. Her first husband (divorced 1929) was Russel Sturgis Codman Jr,. of Boston...
...Florida in chains, piratical Alderman was tried under Sections 272, 273, 275 of the U. S. Criminal Code. In the name of the people of the U. S. in January 1928 he was convicted of murder on the high seas, sentenced by U. S. District Judge Henry D. Clayton to "be hanged by the neck until dead-dead-dead." Vainly did Alderman carry his case to the Supreme Court of the U. S., to President Hoover for clemency...