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  3. Path: sparky!uunet!charon.amdahl.com!pacbell.com!ames!ncar!uchinews!ellis!thf2
  4. From: thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank)
  5. Subject: Sherman Act
  6. Message-ID: <1992Nov18.042647.17597@midway.uchicago.edu>
  7. Followup-To: misc.legal,sci.econ
  8. Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
  9. Reply-To: thf2@midway.uchicago.edu
  10. Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
  11. References: <1992Nov16.013012.21277@gordian.com> <1992Nov16.235843.2228@midway.uchicago.edu> <13221@optilink.UUCP>
  12. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 04:26:47 GMT
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  15. In article <13221@optilink.UUCP> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
  16. >In article <1992Nov16.235843.2228@midway.uchicago.edu>, thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu (Ted Frank) writes:
  17. >> We'll even leave aside the argument that the Sherman Act had a positive
  18. >> effect on the economy in its first forty years. 
  19. >
  20. >How could it?  Into the 1920s, corporations weren't subject to the
  21. >Sherman Act -- only unions were.  
  22.  
  23. I suspect American Tobacco Corp. would be surprised by this characterization.
  24.  
  25. Ted "tie-ins backwards-R us" Frank
  26. -- 
  27. ted frank                     | thf2@ellis.uchicago.edu 
  28. standard disclaimers          | void where prohibited
  29. the university of chicago law school, chicago, illinois 60637
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