Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...three members of the majority and two of the minority, he authorized and directed to investigate circumstances and facts, and report the same to the Senate, concerning the alleged failure of Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, to prosecute properly violators of the Sherman anti-trust act and the Clayton act against monopolies and unlawful restraint of trade; the alleged neglect and failure of the said Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, to arrest and prosecute Albert B. Fall, Harry F. Sinclair, E. L. Doheny, C. R. Forbes and their co-conspirators in defrauding...
...After declaring that the best way of ensuring peace was to prepare for peace and denouncing the maxim of "Trust in God and keep your powder dry," William Leach, Under Secretary of State for Air, announced that the Government would carry on its predecessor's policy of expanding the Air Force. "Shame!" cried a Labor member. Mr. Leach said that what was needed were "new excavations to raise the lid from the sarcophagus of the New Testament." Major General J. E. B. Seely (Liberal) retorted: "If the Empire is to be defended by Sermons on the Mount, God help...
...Opera Trust...
...Opera Company, journeyed to Manhattan, payed a visit to Giulio Gatti-Casazza, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera Company. Immediately rumors went abroad that in the long confabulation of the two functionaries there was discussed, and even arranged, a merger of the Chicago and the Metropolitan Companies. "An opera trust...
...vast majority of our fellow citizens, the great masses of the people, obtain their idea of American justice from the minor courts, from the magistrates' courts, from municipal courts, the tribunals that are well called the poor man's courts. Here is a special trust of the lawyers to use their full influence to assure an inexpensive, speedy, expert administration of justice where the courts most frequently touch the lives of the plain people...