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...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...
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...
...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...
...Department of Justice's able John F. Sonnett tried hard to get the genie back into the bottle. In support of the Department's plea that all makeready time should be ruled trifles, he said: ". . . An employer is not entitled to deduct trifling personal-pursuit periods. . . . And an employe should not be entitled to . . . trifling periods of preliminary activity. . . . If portal-to-portal compensation is granted, then the employer will be entitled to keep track of and deduct short periods spent in personal pursuits." Asked Judge Picard: "You think we might do an ultimate injustice to the worker...
...Sonnett sweated under a flurry of questions from the bench. chiefly those of Justice Frankfurter, who was delving into the legislative records of laws involved. Many questions dealt with the intent of Congress...