Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock in another, "where the effect of such acquisition may be [to restrain commerce] or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce." Ruled the Supreme Court (in the majority opinion written by Justice Brennan): the facts showed a "reasonable probability" that Du Pont's stock interest in G.M. "is likely to result in the condemned restraints...
...Raskob's 1917 report, arguing that purchase of G.M. stock "will undoubtedly secure for us" the entire G.M. market for paints, artificial leather and other Du Pont products. Concluded the highest court: "The inference is overwhelming that Du Font's commanding position was promoted by its stock interest and was not gained solely on competitive merit...
...court had opened up a new field of antitrust prosecutions (see BUSINESS). "Over 40 years after the enactment of the Clayton Act," wrote Burton, "it now becomes apparent for the first time that Section 7 has been a sleeping giant all along. Every corporation which has acquired a stock interest [in a customer or supplier since 1914] is exposed, retroactively, to the bite of the newly discovered teeth...
...Junior refused to acknowledge that he knew his own father (Beck Senior would not admit to Junior). When New York Senator Irving Ives snapped: "For whom were you named?" Junior smirked, crimsoned under his tan, and refused to say.* While his icy-eyed, vigorous father showed every sign of interest in his own undoing before the labor investigating committee. Beck Junior exhibited nothing but slouching boredom as he heard charges that he had been handed some $69,000 as a Teamster organizer, never did a lick of work for his pay, profited $19,500 on the sale of toy trucks...
Hunched over his dusty, paper-piled desk, with his big ears and jet-black bushy brows, Nuri looks like a grizzled old bear. He is ponderous of movement, quickly bored, and constitutionally unwilling to make a show of interest for politeness' sake. He dismisses an aide's idea with a casual wave of the hand that says, "You're a good boy but don't bother me with such nonsense." Worldly, infinitely experienced, he carries himself with the air of one who knows precisely where all the levers of power in his country are located...