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Bill Taft: “The prosecution of trusts under the Sherman antitrust law has gone on without restraint or diminution, and decrees…”

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The prosecution of trusts under the Sherman antitrust law has gone on without restraint or diminution, and decrees similar to those entered in the Standard Oil and the Tobacco cases have been entered in other suits, like the suits against the Powder Trust and the Bathtub Trust.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft discusses the ongoing enforcement of antitrust laws and the successful prosecutions against trusts.

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