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...Sawyer's remarks were apparently in conflict with recent Justice Department policy and court decisions. The Justice Department's Anti-Trust Division has, during the past decade, undertaken cases against large concerns in the grocery, oil, movie, aluminium, and tobacco industries, charging that individual large firms, or several large firms were dominating these industries, either in particular localities or throughout the country...
Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer told the 20th National Business Conference of the Business School Saturday that the nation's anti-trust laws need revision, and by inference, he attacked current Justice Department suits and court rulings against big business...
...Sawyer's address highlighted a day-long session of Business School alumni and business leaders. A record number of more than 900 attended the session, which is sponsored annually by the Business School Association, the School's alumni group...
...Sawyer attacked "certain theorists, both in and out of government, including some on the bench, who undertake to decide questions about business with a magnificent indifference to the daily difficulties which face businessmen...
...good character" and was not "attached to the principles of the Constitution"). Lee changed his name, married an American, and on the fourth try achieved citizenship. Only two months ago, while a subcommittee investigated charges that Lee had slowed down vital gasoline shipments to the Chinese Nationalist forces, Secretary Sawyer had rallied to Lee's defense. "He's one of the department's best men, vital in the organization-if they're going to take out after him, we're ready to fight," Sawyer told a senator. The committee, unimpressed, advised Sawyer to fire...