Word: doj
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, attacking on four fronts, probers, investigators and plain publicity hounds were sniffing around trying to ferret out some of the more noisome complaints: ¶ The Department of Justice attacked the National Football League's restriction on the telecasting of games. "If this suit is successful," warned a DOJ man, "action will be taken in the cases of all other sporting events." ¶ A congressional committee, picking up where it left off last summer, called more witnesses in its investigation of monopoly in baseball. Main targets: 1) the reserve clause, which binds a player to one club until...