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Heil Lewis! John L. Lewis [TIME, May 20] is a traitor to his country. ... If [he] is not a conspirator, if he is not restraining trade, if he isn't preventing the normal forces of competition which determine the demand and price which a laborer is able to command on an open market, then I wasted three years in the Army, 22 months overseas, helping restrain a despot who did that very thing. ... If we people will only let it be known how we feel, maybe the proper authorities will screw up their courage to the sticking point...
...pigeon-holed construction of larger traffic signals on each of the streets converging on the Square. Placed fifteen to twenty feet away from the corner they would be visible to all approaching drivers and thus would control the flow of Square traffic. The pedestrian lights are designed to restrain those who would match wills with the Boston-brand cowboy. It would be wise to supplement these proposals by changing the position of our policeman and his booth to the center of the intersection. From here it is possible to control front-seat tempers, while...
Bill Mauldin, cartoonist of G.I. Joe (and Willie), who has sued his wife for divorce, charging adultery, drew a countersuit from her: that he had threatened to make off with Son Bruce, two. She asked a Los Angeles court to restrain him, also asked for $710 a month out of his estimated $200,000 income...
Hunt's promptly sought an injunction, sued the union for treble damages, charged that the union had violated the Sherman Anti-Trust Act by combining to restrain trade. Ruling on an appeal, the Supreme Court, in a bitterly argued 5-to-4 decision, threw the company's case out the window...
Paradoxical cause of all such argument is that patents are legalized monopolies, issued and protected under one federal law, while another federal law makes the use of those monopolies a crime if undertaken with intent to restrain trade. Conscious criminal intent is not found among respectable businessmen, and even where it occurs is impossible to prove...