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Bill Taft: “I venture to say that not in the history of American law has a decree more effective for such a purpose been entered by…”

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I venture to say that not in the history of American law has a decree more effective for such a purpose been entered by a court than that against the Tobacco Trust.
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Bill Taft
Republican · Ohio

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Taft claims that the court's decree against the Tobacco Trust is unprecedentedly effective in American legal history.

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