Word: attorney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...long time since trust-busting was a front-page activity of the U. S. Government. Last week, however, three potent U. S. corporations found themselves involved in anti-trust proceedings. Attorney General William De Witt Mitchell filed suit against Warner Brothers and William Fox and announced a general investigation of the pooled patents held by Radio Corp. of America. This announcement closely followed a ruling in which the U. S. District Court in Wilmington, Delaware, declared that Radio Corp. was following monopolistic practices in its licensing policy...
...Debated the tariff bill. ¶ Confirmed the nomination of Senator Edge as Ambassador to France (see col 2, of Gustav Aaron Youngquist as As- sistant Attorney General. ¶ Adopted (49-33) a resolution by Mon- tana's Walsh ending the special session. ¶ Adjourned until...
...last month was born a proposal which, had it occurred in their State, would have set the Wisconsin politicians baying with wildest apprehension. The proposal was to form one gigantic State bank for Nebraska, of which every state bank, now independent, would become a branch linking up the chain. Attorney Thomas Stinson Allen, brother-in-law of the late William Jennings Bryan, representing unidentified Manhattan banking interests, advanced the proposal to the State Government to lift it out of its troubles over the State's Bank Guaranty Fund. To this fund State banks in Nebraska must contribute one tenth...
When these advertisements appeared, the assistant district attorney in charge of prohibition enforcement refused to take any action against the editors of the CRIMSON and Lampoon, dismissing the whole affair as a college prank. It could not be learned last night if an investigation was now being contemplated, in the light of developments of the past week...
...Have this book wrapped up, sealed, and impounded," he said, "and keep it until you receive an order from the district attorney or the superior court...