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...with automobile manufacturers. Last year the American Finance Conference, a trade association of independent automobile finance companies, inspired a Department of Justice investigation of the trade practices of the four factory-affiliated finance companies which do 75% of the new car business. Under the then Assistant Attorney General Robert Houghwout Jackson, charges of dealer coercion were presently brought against the "Big Four" in Milwaukee. But the case fizzled when Judge Ferdinand A. Geiger indignantly dismissed it, after hearing that Robert Jackson was trying to arrange a consent decree on the side (TIME...
...Folklore of Capitalism is an irreverent, eloquent 46-year-old Yale law professor named Thurman Wesley Arnold whose previous career included a term in the Wyoming Legislature, legal work for the New Deal as a trial examiner for the SEC, consultant to Department of Justice's Trustbusting Robert Houghwout Jackson...
...Confirmed the appointment of Robert Houghwout Jackson as U. S. Solicitor General...
...dinner of the Young Democratic Club of New York, where rumor says he has aims at being Governor, Franklin Roosevelt's trust-busting protege, Solicitor General-designee Robert Houghwout Jackson, spoke to Business in more conciliatory terms than usual: "The business man is not easily interested in distant reforms if he is showing losses from quarter to quarter. But the Government, whose first duty is to preserve the future of the nation, has to try to live, not from quarter to quarter, not even from decade to decade, but actually from generation to generation...
...National Affairs, Jan. 17: "... The New Deal has made the seventh President's birthday a national political fiesta." And: "Robert Houghwout Jackson ... in the prelude to his namesake's birthday...