Word: trust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...making these changes in the rules the committee's aim is to more nearly equalize the attacking and defensive powers. During the past season it developed that if a team could not gain its ten yards in two downs it preferred to trust to the individual ability of a punter, rather than to risk losing the ball entirely. The change which gives a team four downs to make ten yards is expected to strengthen the offense...
...that of the precinct captains for the work done by Harvard men in the Boston City Election last Tuesday. Their work was the more appreciated because of extreme weather conditions which prevailed and the closeness of the vote. The sweeping victory resulting was a cause for satisfaction, and I trust that the men obtained interesting experience from seeing the actual working of the Australian Ballot as used in Boston. EARNEST E. SMITH...
...remedial side, however, the common law was not adequate. The movement toward combination was too general to be checked by litigation instituted by individuals. To meet this difficulty, the Sherman Anti-Trust Law was passed. It provided more effective procedure and more definite penalties, but did not make illegal anything which would not have been illegal under the common law. By the strict and continuous enforcement of the common law under this statute, Professor Wyman believes that as much will have been done as is desirable toward the maintenance of conditions favorable to competition...
...virtual monopoly. He, therefore, argues for some sort of regulating commission analogous to the Interstate Commerce Commission. This is a proposal favored by an increasing number of lawyers as well as by many concerned with the management of existing monopolies. Whether it would prove a wise solution of the trust problem is primarily an economic rather than a legal question. It is also a far less simple question than the lawyer seems to appreciate...
...remedy for preventing monopolies in restraint of trade is not to be gained by enforcing the Sherman Anti-Trust Act nor by breaking up corporations. In order to prevent excessive monopoly, we should create trade commissions, both state and national, provided with the same power that the Inter-state Commerce Commission has had over the railroads. This Commission has the power of fixing reasonable rates, and the system has worked to the advantage of both the railroads and the public. Besides the power of regulating rates, a trade commission should have the authority to break up consolidations which...