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...Three cigaret companies (American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds), convicted seven weeks ago of monopoly and conspiracy in restraint of trade (TIME, Nov. 3), were sentenced last week by a Federal judge in Lexington, Ky. Nobody will go to jail. But the judge's decision put a large segment of U.S. business on notice: competitors who do not use price as a weapon may be "conspiring" to fix prices even if they never actually meet to do so. To a great many lawyers, this is something new under the Sherman Act. One defense counsel called it the "Thurman...
...Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co. (Chesterfields); President James W. Andrews; Vice Presidents George W. Whitaker and Edward H. Thurston, Manufacture Manager William A. Blount...
Under the guise of a dulcet French nomenclature, the Dining Halls continue to serve food of the better drugstore variety. This is not to say anything against that venerable American institution, the drugstore; but there is a growing feeling among Harvard men that for Liggett's food they should pay Liggett's prices...
...foreign principal." By unloading the Worker on three amiable old ladies, it appeared that the Communist Party might save itself a lot of trouble and perhaps some financial worries (such as the fine for criminal libel recently imposed on the Daily Publishing Co. following a suit by Mrs. Edith Liggett, widow of the Minneapolis publisher killed by gunmen in 1935). In the reflected innocence of New England respectability, the Worker's editors may be able to carry on their work as usual. That the principal object of the sale was to keep the Worker out of trouble was confirmed...
...well-nigh invulnerable trust by 1910, controlled the market for every tobacco product but cigars. Roosevelt's and Taft's trustbusters broke it into pieces, rearranged the pieces so that there were at least two companies making each important product, four important cigaret makers. Those four, American, Liggett & Myers, Reynolds, and Lorillard, plus hefty Newcomer Philip Morris, are the "Big Five" today...