On May 15, 1911, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Standard Oil Company of New Jersey was an unreasonable combination in violation of the Sherman Antitrust Act, and ordered it dissolved. As a result, the government's lead trial lawyer, Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, became the subject of numerous stories in newspapers and magazines. One "appreciative" portrait appeared in the February 1912 issue of Case and Comment, a popular legal monthly. It was written by St. Paul practitioner George F. Longsdorf. It is posted here.
Another flattering profile of "Trust-Buster Kellogg" was published in Current Literature in October 1911. The author quotes a muckraker: "There is no lawyer in the whole country whom the criminal wealth more fears today." This short article is posted in the Appendix.
Kellogg's first antitrust prosecution in which he represented the federal government was against the Paper Trust, a combination of twenty-three paper companies that monopolized the manufacture and sale of paper products in Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota. In the Appendix are documents regarding the Paper Trust case: excerpts from the decision of the United States Supreme Court on March 12, 1906, ordering the defendants to produce their books and their executives to testify about their business practices; a story in the New York Tribune on May 11, 1906, about the surprising "surrender" of the defendants, and Judge Walter Sanborn's decree dissolving the trust and enjoining the defendants from further violating the Sherman Act.
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