Word: consent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These men were elected earlier in the year in order that they might help the committee of the Class of 1937 in their work. The chairman was elected by these five Juniors, and positions were then allotted by mutual consent...
...should have sued the company in Pittsburgh where its head offices are," instead of in Manhattan; 2) the charges were the same as those brought in a 1912 suit against the company, tried in the Pittsburgh court; 3) the Pittsburgh court had settled the issue in 1912 by a consent decree* perpetually enjoining the company and its officers "from entering into or participating in any combination or agreement the purpose or effect of which is to restrict or control the output or the prices of aluminum." Effect of Judge Gibson's order was to require Government attorneys to come...
...declared, the Government had only sought to restrain Aluminum Co. from, certain monopolistic practices; now it was trying to dissolve the company. Since 1912 the company had expanded and extended its control of the market, establishing Aluminum Ltd. of Canada "to prevent competition from abroad." The consent decree of 1912 was still in effect, returned Alcoa counsel, and there was not one charge in the Manhattan suit which if proved would not render the company in contempt of the Pittsburgh court. Even so, pursued Attorney Jackson, he and his associates could be sued only as agents of the Government...
...Consent decrees are settlements, common in anti-trust prosecutions, by which legal opponents come to terms, agreeing to a judgment of the court...
...Steel, G-Man of the Deep," rips off his breeches and dives to the attack, knife in teeth. Audiences will guess that some energetic harpooning of the monsters has preceded Caswell's scrimmages: the fish stay on the surface to be photographed in a manner fish seldom consent to unless submergence is impossible due to the fact that they are nine-tenths dead and full...