Word: shermanism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
Said Justice Black, for the majority: "The only combination here was one of workers alone, and what they refused to sell petitioner was their labor. It is not a violation of the Sherman Act for laborers in combination to refuse to work. They can sell or not sell their labor as they please and upon such terms and conditions as they choose...
...disclosures. The almost forgotten rearguard action which A. & P. has been fighting with the U.S. Government became front-page news again. Last week A. & P. and its public relations firm of Carl Byoir & Associates were sweating through a federal trial in Danville, Ill., charged with violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act. John Hartford, home in Valhalla, N.Y., sweated through a golf game, spluttered: "I'll have to talk to my lawyer...
...General Sherman Miles and Admiral Felix X. Gygax will award commissions to the graduating officers, while the invocation ceremonies are performed by Colonel Abbot Peterson, Chaplain of the First Service Command, and the benediction by Naval Chaplain, Lieutenant Ralph E. Tupper...
Pride and Frustration. Then the British moved in. They cut French General Oliva Roget's line of communication with his base at Beirut. Into Damascus clanked a column of Sherman tanks on which Union Jacks had been freshly painted. Up from Cairo flew General Sir Bernard Paget, British commander in chief in the Middle East, who had several hundred thousand men on call. Paget ordered Roget to "cease fire." The Frenchman said that he would not take orders from a Britisher. Paget suggested that Roget call his French superior, General Humbolt, at Beirut. Roget pointed out that the British...