From the 1920's on, independent movie theater owners nationwide faced numerous unfair trade practices from film producers and distributors. What's more, as the producers built or acquired movie houses, independent exhibitors faced direct competition as well. Although the U.S. Justice Department at ...

Frank B. Kellogg: "Results of the Standard Oil Decision." (1912).

After the Supreme Court issued its decision dissolving the Standard Oil monopoly in May 1911, the government's lead attorney, Frank B. Kellogg of St. Paul, was lionized in many newspaper and magazine articles. But he also became the object of petty partisan sniping. House Democrats launched an inve...

"Some Legal Phases of Corporate Financing, Reorganization and Regulation" (1917).

In 1917 seven lectures, delivered before the Bar Association of New York City the previous year, were published by the MacMillan Company under the title "Some Legal Phases of Corporate Financing, Reorganization and Regulation." The lectures were:

"Preparation of corporate bonds, mortg...

Albert H. Walker: History of the Sherman Act (1910).

The Sherman Antitrust Act was signed by President Harrison on July 2, 1880. Thirty years later, Albert H. Walker, a New York lawyer, published "History of the Sherman Act of the United States of America." It was republished by Greenwood Press in 1980. In his Preface, Walker writes:

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