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...Harlem section of New York, usually so peaceful and law-abiding, received a severe jolt. About 4 :30 o'clock in the morning when "Bill" Brennan, ex-pugilist and proprietor of the Club Tia Juana Cabaret, was eating a good-night meal with his sister (stage name Shirley Sherman) and with his old friend, James Cullen, a State trooper, a man stepped into the cabaret, tapped Brennan on the shoulder, said : "Bill, can I see you a minute?" Brennan, knowing many, but known to many more, did not recognize the man, but, excusing himself from his sister...
...that when the New York Evening Post wanted good men it sent for Dean Gay of Harvard and Prof. Canby of Yale; that the Times employed Commissioner Finley rather than some man who had worked on the staff for 25 years; and that the Tribune sent for Stuart P. Sherman. You can count on your fingers the regular newspapermen in New York who are getting $100 per week, a mere pittance in that terrible town...
...asserted that Mr. Daugherty had halted prosecution of the United Gas Improvement Co., charged with violating the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, that he had illegally turned over to a Swiss company which was in reality a German subsidiary, $6,000,000 derived by the Alien Property Custodian from the sale of its securities...
...form of dividends. Incidentally, this in part explains Henry Ford's willingness to buy all sorts of business enterprises of late, such as his railroad or his huge new development at River Rouge. "Lateral" trusts-i.e., mergers of industries of the same sort-are forbidden by the Sherman Anti-Trust Law on the grounds of restraint of trade. But for the "vertical trust," involving ownership of all productive and transportation facilities needed for manufacture of a product there is no legal prohibition. This is the kind of trust that Henry Ford is creating...
Repeal of the Sherman...