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...letter to TIME appearing in the May 3 issue, Mr. Mark W. Cresap denies that his ancestor, Captain Cresap, murdered the family of Logan, the friendly Mingo leader. Logan himself believed otherwise, as appears from his reply to John Gibson, an emissary from Governor Dunmore of Virginia, in 1774. His speech is regarded as a classic example of the simple, direct, dignified style of the Indian. It may be found in Vol. VII, The World's Best Orations, p. 2569 (1901 edition), and is as follows...
Five days later a fourth figure popped into what loomed as the biggest corporate anti-trust case since the dissolution of old Standard Oil in 1911. The distinguished kibitzer was Pittsburgh's Federal District Judge Robert Murray Gibson, 67, and his surprise move was to issue a temporary order restraining Attorney General Cummings and his subordinates from pursuing their action against Alcoa. In their petition for the order, Aluminum Co. attorneys had asserted that: 1) the Attorney General should have sued the company in Pittsburgh where its head offices are," instead of in Manhattan; 2) the charges were...
...cynics suspected Messrs. Cummings, Jackson & Co. of personal animus in initiating the Alcoa suit, New Deal partisans now equally wondered whether a "Mellon judge" was cracking back at them. White-haired, erudite Judge Gibson was appointed to the bench by President Harding 16 months after Mr. Mellon became Harding's Secretary of the Treasury. His son-in-law, William H. Eckert, is a member of the law firm of Smith, Buchanan, Scott & Ingersoll, Aluminum Co. attorneys. But in Pittsburgh it is a rare Republican, Presbyterian and substantial citizen who does not have at least one son-in-law connected...
Last fortnight Assistant Attorney General Jackson, one of the nation's ablest trial lawyers, went to Pittsburgh and did his persuasive best to make Judge Gibson change his mind. He denied that the charges of 1912 and 1937 were identical. In 1912, he 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...
...Judge Gibson retired to his chambers to ponder these perplexities. Last week he emerged to announce that his mind was unchanged, to strengthen his restraining order by issuing a temporary injunction. Final hearing on a permanent injunction would be held later. Thoroughly vexed at this stubborn obstacle in their path, Government attorneys pondered whether to make one more attempt to win Judge Gibson over; to try to get the Manhattan Court to enjoin him; or to appeal the case to a higher Federal Court...