Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Herman Berman. Prisoner No. 65 was Abraham Pepper. Prisoner No. 73 was Goodman Levy. Prisoner No. 86 was Hyman Matofsky. There were, in all, 81 prisoners (five of the 86 being absent, nolle prossed or admittedly guilty). New York poultry men all, indicted under the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, all being tried simultaneously in the court of Federal Judge John C. Knox, they presented several difficult problems in the administration of justice...
Fourth problem was getting witnesses to testify. The 81 accused, technically a trust, are really claimed to have operated a "racket" in poultry similar to the food rackets common to all large U. S. cities nowadays. They had formed a poultry association, lined up the poultry butchers (chiefly in Jewish sections of Brooklyn), raised poultry prices and divided the increased profits between butchers and association. The Government claimed that member-butchers were allotted certain customers, that nonmember butchers were intimidated and assaulted. One Government witness, a onetime association member, apparently remembered nothing of the story he had last winter recited...
...York City, surgeon and Professor of Clinical Surgery at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, J. O. Proctor, Jr., '01, of Milton, lawyer, member of the firm of Goodwin, Proctor and Hoar of Boston and S. H. Wolcott, '03, of Boston, vice-president of the State Street Trust Company, a former director of the Alumni Association...
Griswold, who edited the Review two years ago, has written an article on "Reaching the Interest of the Beneficiary of the Spend-thrift Trust" while Professors Frankfurter and Sandis have joined in an essay on "The Business of the Supreme Court in the October term, 1928". These men have written a book called "Business of the Supreme Court", to which the essay adds further information...
...these added profits, the greatest share will probably go to the American Tobacco Co. Forced to segregate many of its properties in 1911 under the anti-trust law, American Tobacco still holds a dominant position in the trade, is said to handle one-third each of the cigaret and smoking tobacco business, and one-fourth of the plug business. Besides Lucky Strike, its brands include Sweet Caporal, Pall Mall, Lord Salisbury, Bull Durham, Tuxedo, Half and Half, Blue Boar, Cremo. But the American Tobacco Co., as all the world knows, has concentrated on Lucky Strikes, for which most...