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When the U. S. Government entered suit in a Federal District Court in Manhattan last month asking that the Mellon family's great Aluminum Co. of America be not only perpetually enjoined from monopolistic practices but also that it be dissolved into several independent corporations (TIME, May 3), the...
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!'':
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...