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- From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: soc.history,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Libertarians in WW2 -> antitrust
- Message-ID: <13253@optilink.UUCP>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:57:41 GMT
- References: <1992Nov16.013012.21277@gordian.com> <JMC.92Nov17223139@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>
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- In article <JMC.92Nov17223139@SAIL.Stanford.EDU>, jmc@SAIL.Stanford.EDU (John McCarthy) writes:
- > Ted Frank says, and Clayton Cramer replies as follows:
- # # We'll even leave aside the argument that the Sherman Act had a positive
- # # effect on the economy in its first forty years.
- #
- # How could it? Into the 1920s, corporations weren't subject
- # to the Sherman Act -- only unions were. Remember how the
- # 14th Amendment was perverted to find that corporations were
- # "persons", and therefore exempted?
- #
- # The Encyclopedia Britannica 14th edition in its article _Petroleum_
- # says:
- #
- # In 1900 the total net assets of the Standard organization
- # were listed as $209,408,449.09. In 1911, as a result of
- # U.S. antitrust legislation, the organization was broken up
- # into more than 30 companies. Rockefeller resigned as
- # president of the Standard Oil Company (New Jersey), which
- # had been incorporated in 1882 under a slightly different
- # title and which was the holding company for the group.
- #
- # Besides that AT&T was prevented from completing its telephone
- # monopoly and had to leave telegraphy to Western Union.
- # There's more if you want to look for it.
- # --
- # John McCarthy, Computer Science Department, Stanford, CA 94305
-
- But the Sherman Antitrust Act wasn't what was used. There were
- additional laws passed during the Progressive Era to create the
- Federal Trade Commission and give them authority to regulate
- mergers and combinations.
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "Foxes prefer rabbits with short claws." -- Nadja Adolf
-