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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fresh from Cornell University Medical College in 1902, Dr. James Sonnett Greene received his first patient: a youth of 20 who stuttered. Between agonizing pauses and machine-gun bursts of repeated consonants, the boy asked what could be done for him. Young Dr. Greene had heard nothing about speech difficulties in medical school. He told the patient to return in a few days; he would try to find out what could be done. But the boy did not come back. He killed himself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Halting Words | 8/8/1949 | See Source »

Peek Up a Rope. If necessary, he will twist an arm. Last year he called John Sonnett, who was taking over the Justice Department's anti-trust division, to point out that he was accustomed to getting anti-trust scoops. Retorted Sonnett: "Aw, go peek up a rope." Sonnett was punished with rough rides on the Merry-Go-Round. The column is equally open about rewarding those who do cooperate: some newsmen spot Pearson's sources simply by seeing who gets his backpats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Querulous Quaker | 12/13/1948 | See Source »

...join the Department of Justice in 1934. Except for two wartime years in the Coast Guard, he has been hardworking his way up ever since. A dark-haired six-footer, Bergson last week was named by the President to head the department's Antitrust Division, succeeding John F. Sonnett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Trusted Buster | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

Cellophane Monopoly? Trustbuster John F. Sonnett of the Department of Justice got after E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. (Inc.). In a civil suit, he charged that Du Pont had the U.S. Cellophane market so tightly wrapped that it 1) got more than $46 million of last year's $62 million total sales, 2) imposed production restrictions on American Viscose Corp.'s Sylvania division, its only competitor in the U.S., and 3) divided the world market with a four-nation cartel. Sonnett asked the court to make Du Pont sell enough plants to permit competition. Du Pont...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Facts & Figures, Dec. 22, 1947 | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...Buster. Assistant U.S. Attorney General John Francis Sonnett ended a Justice Department guessing-game last week by taking over as antitrust chief from Wendell Berge, retiring to enter a Washington law firm. His successful prosecution of the John Lewis contempt case made him the Justice Department's brightest star. Handsome, young (34) John Sonnett likes tough, tricky cases. He will have plenty-44 of the U.S.'s biggest corporations are defendants in pending antitrust suits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FACTS & FIGURES: Mostly Good | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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