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  1. Xref: sparky soc.history:9514 misc.legal:20112 sci.econ:8741
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!edwardk
  3. From: edwardk@cup.portal.com (edward chungfan kwok)
  4. Newsgroups: soc.history,misc.legal,sci.econ
  5. Subject: Re: Sherman Act
  6. Message-ID: <69762@cup.portal.com>
  7. Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 08:25:49 PST
  8. Organization: The Portal System (TM)
  9. References: <1992Nov16.013012.21277@gordian.com>
  10.   <1992Nov16.235843.2228@midway.uchicago.edu> <13221@optilink.UUCP>
  11.   <1992Nov18.042647.17597@midway.uchicago.edu>
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  15. >>How could it?  Into the 1920s, corporations weren't subject to the
  16. >>Sherman Act -- only unions were.  
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  18. >I suspect American Tobacco Corp. would be surprised by this characterization.
  19. >
  20. And of course, they tricked the Rockefellers into splitting up Standard Oil
  21. thinking that the Sherman Act may actually apply to them, Clayton Cramer 
  22. notwithstanding..
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