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...Bigger penalties on use of patents to restrain trade...
...stood three aides, two of them chomping gum. Waggling his eyebrows, in sonorous, sneering, ironic tones he intoned his letter: "Sir, "Your letter at hand. . . ." Denying that the defense program would be impaired, reasserting the loyalty of his miners, Lewis said that if the President were going to restrain him, "then, sir, I submit that you should use the same power to restrain my adversary in this issue, who is an agent of capital. My adversary is a rich man named Morgan, who lives in New York." It was J. P. Morgan, declared Lewis, member of the Board...
...this free country we have no power to restrain any company with lots of money from attempting to delude the public but your effort to be impartial does not require you to give them free advertising...
Mutual's General Manager Fred Weber denounced this as an attempt to "coerce, influence or restrain the free choice of action" of Mutual's affiliates. Mutual President Wilbert E. Macfarlane pled lengthily for ratification, while ASCAP officials lurked hopefully near by. Neville Miller's pleas and the opposition of John Shepard III, bulky, argumentative president of New England's Yankee and Colonial networks whose stations pipe in many a big-chain program, deadlocked the voters...
...since his marriage last summer he has been limited to just $100 a month in living expenses since 1930, blind. British-born Radio Pianist Alec Templeton (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera} sued his parents for an accounting of his $200,000 earnings, and to restrain them from using any power of attorney he may have signed "without knowing what the paper...