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...Monopoly Investigating Committee. Armed with subpoenas which they were instructed not to use unless necessary, SEC agents started looking into insurance investment practices (TIME, July 25), and Department of Justice agents delved into a study of patents. Two pronouncements this year by President Roosevelt, plus recommendations by Solicitor General Jackson and ex-Assistant Secretary of State Berle, indicate that the 100-year-old patent laws are due for an overhauling-if evidence confirms such suspicions as that big corporations suppress patents to block new products...
...midterm, but may not, except for specific offenses, discharge quasi-judicial, quasi-legislative officers (I. C. C., F. T. C.) who have been appointed for fixed periods. Dr. Morgan was first to raise the question of White House control over the appointed officers of such corporations as TVA. Although Solicitor General Robert H. Jackson has opined that the President has ample power to get rid of Dr. Morgan, that persistently righteous man holds one ace: a section in the TVA act which says a director may be removed by concurrent House and Senate resolution, says nothing about Presidential power...
Earlier in the spring, Countess Barbara sent Solicitor William M. Mitchell abroad to arrange a divorce, proceedings of which are now going on in Denmark. "My sum," the terms are Danish the child Count and was a quoted as fantastic said to Mr. Mitchell. The quoter bald, pink-cheeked Solicitor Mitchell himself, sole witness in the case to date. The child, as everyone knew, was two-Lance Haugwitz-Reventlow, now a ward in Chancery. The "fantastic sum" later named by Solicitor Mitchell was $5,000,000, about one-eighth of the esti value of Countess Barbara's fortune...
...Solicitor Mitchell said he had offered the Count $250,000 as a gesture-a "settlement for life." When the Count said $250,000 was "laughable and an insult," Solicitor Mitchell countered: "I wish somebody would insult me." Threatening to give the already much-publicized Countess Barbara "three years of hell with headlines," the Count was then represented by Solicitor Mitchell as having talked of suicide, murder, blackmail and kidnapping. This prompted Countess Barbara to have the Count arrested when he came to England. "If I blow my brains out everybody will know Barbara drove me to it," Solicitor Mitchell quoted...
...only one-fifth of the $500,000 expense money it voted, and because of the six Congress members at least one, Representative Eicher of Iowa, is an Administration wheelhorse, the six executives will doubtless dominate the committee's policy. Significantly, not the President but his trust-busting Solicitor General Robert Houghwout Jackson announced the names...