Word: cummingses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Few modern readers could recall even the name of any 18th Century U. S. poet. Of the 19th Century, only three names are still respectfully remembered: Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson. Of the U. S. poets which the first third of the 20th Century has brought to birth...
Birthday. U. S. Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings, 67; in Washington. Said he: "Time pays no attention when I say 'Whoa!'':
Last week the Alcoa investigation blossomed out as the biggest corporate antitrust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil in 1911. In a Federal District Court in Manhattan the Attorney General not only requested perpetual injunctions to restrain Alcoa, its, officers, directors, principal stockholders and subsidiaries from monopolizing or...
After a perusal of Mr. Cummings' 47-page complaint, Wall Street cynics opined last week that Aluminum Co. of America was being prosecuted for making money.
In its complaint, however, the Government went far beyond allegations of monopoly and restraint of trade in the U. S., charging Alcoa with virtually rigging the entire world market, through its interests or the interests of its affiliates in foreign aluminum. Motive for this was alleged to be the company...