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...Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold, now a not-too-august U.S. Court of Appeals Associate Justice, last week wiped off the dust that had gathered on his club since he left the Department of Justice, and whammed it down on the collective pate of organized labor. The blow, wrapped in the current issue of Cosmopolitan magazine, was delivered with the same kind of gusto with which he had smashed so savagely at various A.F. of L. unions (building trades, teamsters, musicians) as harmful monopolies. His kick upstairs to the bench brought no heartier sighs of relief from any area than from...
...blocked by anti-New Deal Publisher Robert R. McCormick of the Chicago Tribune. The suit was handicapped from the start. Publishers tended to side with A.P. automatically. Some felt the Government's case was politically tainted; most had a deep-seated distaste for Trust-Buster Thurman Arnold, instigator of the suit...
When Trust Buster Thurman Arnold last fall fixed a glittering eye on the railroads, he charged that they, through the Railway Express Agency Inc., were controlling and hindering the development of air express on U.S. airlines...
...agents. This combination made Sterling a chief commercial aid to the Nazis after war broke out in Europe, because Sterling had also agreed to supply I.G.'s Latin American market if I.G. itself could not deliver. In the fall of 1941 it brought down a walloping attack from Thurman Arnold. With the aid of its lawyer, ex-New Deal Fixer Tommy Corcoran, Sterling cleaned up its mess by 1) signing a consent decree; 2) agreeing to abrogate its German contracts once and for all and to compete with I.G. actively in Latin America...
Friends say he passed up a $100,000-a-year offer from a New York law firm to accept Franklin Roosevelt's $12,500 court appointment. Washington's thinning band of original New Dealers, in which Thurman Arnold was a whimsical free lancer, shuddered to think of him in a black gown. Philosophized Arnold: "I guess I'm like the Marx brothers-they can be awfully funny for a long while, but finally people get tired of them. A lot of the bureaucrats are not only tired of me but also awfully sore...