Word: effect
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Economies of $300.000.000 or $400,000,000, Congress to decide where and how, to effect a "layman's balance"* of the Budget...
...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 into his court and attempt to convince him that they were not trying to convict the company a second time for the same...
...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 and, as everyone knew...
Ruled Justice Clauson: "Last December the British Government recognized the Italian Government as in fact the Government of the area then under Italian control. The effect of Great Britain's de facto recognition is that I am bound to treat the acts of the Government which was so recognized as acts which cannot be impugned.'' Referring to the decree signed by the Negus at Bath: "I cannot imagine any ground on which it could seriously be argued that I could pay any attention...
...Effect of the legislation would have been to bar from Ohio whiskeys distilled in such big producing States as Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland and Pennsylvania; brandies from California and New York; rum from Massachusetts. Upon hearing English-educated Mr. Morgan's distasteful forecast, Ohio's legislators killed the measure...