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The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals to order a retrial on the case of ousted collector of the country's internal revenue bureau, Denis W. Delaney in early July 1953. The court claims that the press uproar had prevented a fair trial on Delaney so it is ordering a retrial. The evidence presented by sister publications Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin reporter John Strohmeyer, however, prompted Delaney to plead guilty on bribery and tax evasion.

The article offers information on two antitrust cases in the U.S. involving the "Lorain (Ohio) Journal" and Times Picayune Publishing Co. The U.S. justice department has accused Times Picayune of illegal and unfair advertising policies. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a decision by the District Court in Cleveland, Ohio in the case involving the Lorain journal. As mentioned, the judgment in the cases will decide about the advertising policies of newspapers in regard to competitors.

The article provides information on the case involving the alleged monopoly of fat lambs by the Denver Union Stockyards Co. that was annulled by Federal District Judge J. Foster Symes and was remanded by the Supreme Court to the tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.

This article focuses on several developments in the U.S. and around the world, as of February 4, 1909. Based on the Anti-trust Act of 1890, the U.S. Supreme Court gave a decision that debts cannot be collected through the court by a trust in the Continental Wall Paper Co. case. The question at issue was whether the Wall Paper Co. was or was not acting in restraint of trade under the law of 1890 and therefore an illegal enterprise. The U.S. Senate has voted for a new position in the U.S. State Department of "Under-Secretary of State," with a salary of $10,000. If the House also concurs this new position will be created. The reason behind creating the new post is overworking of all the recent Secretaries of State.

Presents several letters to the editor regarding various previously published articles concerning current socio-political developments and issues. "The West and Greenbacks," which focuses on the currency question and matter of paper money in the U.S.; "Supreme Court Decisions," which appreciates an article exploring the use of the Supreme Court against the validity of U.S. statutes; ""The Nation's" Conservatism," which focuses on the intellect of political parties of the U.S.

The article reports on the lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to cancel the mergers which established Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp. (FTC) to cancel the mergers which established Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.

The article presents information a lawsuit filed by Fielderest Dairies Inc. and American Can Co. against Chicago Board of Health over milk containers.

The article reports on the consent settlement between International Paper Co. and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regarding the anti-merger case filed by the former in the U.S.

The article reports on the separate rulings of the Federal Trade Commission which order Pillsbury Co. and Scott Paper Co. to disinvest of their acquired companies including Ballard & Ballard Co., Soundview Pulp Co. and Hollingsworth & Whitney Co., respectively.

The article focuses on the accusations made by the Congress of Industrial Organization's (CIO) United Steelworkers of America against Mesta Machine Co. of West Homestead, Pennsylvania, concerning the company's failure to include incentive bonus earnings of workers. Mesta president Lorenz M. Iverson's refusal to enter an agreement with the organization was considered the beginning of the conflict between the parties involved.

The article reports on the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to stop the U.S. government from preventing the newspapers like "The New York Times," and the "Washington Post," to publish the secret history of Vietnam war. It is stated that the decision strengthened the freedom of speech and freedom of press mentioned in the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Justices, Hugo L. Black, William O. Douglas and Thurgood Marshall declared that there can be no exceptions to the First Amendment's press freedom, no matter what the potential impact on the nation.

The article presents information on a court case which was started after attorney general John Mitchell sent a telegram to the newspaper "New York Times," for willingly disclosing secret defense information that could jeopardize the safety of the country. In the case, the U.S. Justice Department chose not to file criminal charges because its main concern was to prevent publication of the documents.

The article presents some socio-political updates. It says that if the U.S. Congress wishes to decree the death penalty for all persons drinking liquids containing more than one-half of one per cent of alcohol it has the constitutional power to do so. It has not so voted, but the death penalty is being imposed. Not universally, but sufficiently to explain a large part of the hundreds of deaths from Christmas and New Year's drinking in the U.S. Another update says that the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco recently handed down its verdict in favor of S.G. Pandit, a naturalized Hindu, whose papers the U.S. State Department attempted to revoke.

Focuses on advertising executive, copy writer and U.S. Congressman Bruce Barton. Discussion of the opinion that freedom of press does not entitle newspapers to publish personal scandal; Focus on a case in which Barton accused the defendant of blackmail and attempted extortion; Suppression of the case by several newspapers; Comments on the space given to Barton in several newspapers; Information on Barton's control over advertising money.

The article reports on the anti-trust charges filed by the U.S. government against "Kansas City Star" newspaper President Roy A. Roberts and Advertising Director Emil A. Sees. Republican Frank Carlson of Kansas City, Missouri criticized the indictment when it was handed down in the Senate. Roberts argued against the alleged existence of coercion on advertisers and the advertising rates for all the paper's editions compared with other major papers in the U.S. He cited two other cases in which the government and the "Star" were involved in 1930 and 1946.

The article focuses on the ruling of a U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) examiner that the antimerger law is violated by Crown Zellerbach Corp. when it acquires Saint Helen Pulp & Paper Co. in 1957. The examiner contends that the acquisition lessens competition and monopolizes the production and sale of course papers. Crown Zellerbach Corp. is also ordered by the examiner to divest itself.

Relates the experience of the author dining with his wife, brother-in-law and sister-in-law at his mother-in-law’s apartment. Gratification felt by the author for possessing and wife and a sister-in-law who can make him laugh; Discussion of the result of the murder case of immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti; Effort of the author’s brother-in-law to keep him from making a speech about the case.

The article focuses on the increasing number of lawsuits filed by shareholders against public companies. It highlights a lawsuit filed against mining company Texas Gulf Sulphur which raised issues about corporate disclosure. It notes that the amount of liability insurance sold to directors and officers has increased to over 1 billion U.S. dollars in 1968. Reasons behind the increase in the number of lawsuits are enumerated, including the increasing sympathy of courts towards the shareholder.

The article offers information about the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Co. (3M) which intends to protect its monopolistic situation by developing products according to requirement of market and finding uninhabited market. It states that licensing hold various advantages including avoidance of litigation with infringers, competitive promotion and increased public interest. William McKnight, chairman of 3M feels that legal monopoly provided by the patents is a prime tenet of corporate life.

The article focuses on second-trial strategies with an example of a court case. The courtroom audience braced itself for a shock as the jury filed in shortly after the midday recess. The old Judge had made it plain that the twelve who were to decide the fate of Alger Hiss, the defendant, were not coming in merely to ask for further information, as they had done twice before. By this time extremely few among them, reportedly, the defendant himself still expected an acquittal. The nature of the jury's several requests for additional information made that only a remote possibility.

The article refers to the U.S. Supreme Court's basing-point decision in the Federal Trade Commission's Cement Institute case and the issue of freight absorption in the New England manufacturing area. Managers are concerned that the ruling will affect the cost of material, established selling practices, prices for finished products, and the ability to remain competitive. Topics include steel products, paper box industry, cement, rayon textiles, chemical industry, zone system of pricing, the f.o.b. mill pricing policy, and how a trend toward f.o.b. prices in New England will affect trade with Canada.

Presents news briefs, related to political developments of several nations. Comments of President Calvin Coolidge on the Conference of Allied nations in London, England, for the reconstruction of Europe, after the World War I; Features of the Dawes Plan, formulated by U.S. politician Charles Dawes, discussed at the Conference; Benefits of the Conference to France; Agreement of the U.S. to cooperate in the control to be exercised over Germany; Achievements of the Conference; Features of the political campaigns of presidential candidate John W. Davis and President Calvin Coolidge; Use of humble origin and homely personality by Coolidge to promote his campaign; Attack of Davis on the Republican corruption and inefficiency in his campaign; Attitude of many politicians towards the candidacy of Senator Robert La Follette, forming his own Progressive Party; Description of the menace of "syndicate journalism," when a chain of newspapers is owned by a single individual; and uses his power for improper private ends; Steps taken by Attorney-General Harlan P. Stone, to get rid of William J. Burns by abolishing the system of espionage; Trial of several persons convicted of the murder of Lieutenant Warren Grimm of the American Legion in an attack on the I.W.W. hall during a parade on Armistice Day, 1919; Eye witnesses to the murder.

The article presents commentary on various domestic U.S. politics and law as of the week of July 3, 1971. The legal case between the Department of Justice and the New York Times over the publishing of Vietnam War documents is discussed in detail. The book "Hopes and Fears of the American People," by J. Irwin Miller is highlighted. A federal ruling banning the distribution of fingerprint records by the Federal Bureau of Investigation outside of crime enforcement is reviewed.

The article discusses a court case wherein the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals determined that perfumers can use French words in naming, labeling, and advertising their products.

The article presents a perspective on the impact of the Sacco-Vanzetti case in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. According to the author, the city has absorbed in, and obsessed by the case of two Italian radicals. The author added that the issue has occasioned a controversy of extraordinary bitterness all over the city.

The article discusses the struggle between Donald L. Barnes, president of American Investment Co. (AIC) and David B. Lichtenstein, former vice president and director of AIC, for control of the company through a proxy battle for support of stockholders. The proxy battle will be settled during the annual meeting in May 1955. A lawsuit against Lichtenstein was filed in the federal court for the Lichtenstein purchase of Liberty Loan Corp. through Key Finance Co., instead of AIC.

Focuses on the trial of Edith Maxwell, a twenty-one year old Virginia mountain school teacher, who was convicted of murdering her father after he tried to beat her for disobedience. Difference of opinion on the instrument used by Maxwell for killing; Role of media in misrepresentation of the case of Maxwell; Reference to the Maxwell case as a dramatic struggle between the archaic family code of the mountains and the encroaching freedom of modern youth; Information about Maxwell's character that played a role in bringing about her conviction; Acquisition of rights to Maxwell's story by Hearst papers; Opening of a defense fund by "The Washington Herald"; Appeal by the paper for contributions toward a new trial.

The article provides information on a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department against publisher Leonard K. Nicholson for alleged unfair competition. The agency argued that Nicholson forced advertisers to put advertisements in his papers "Times-Picayune" and "States" even if they wanted to promote only in one. In the ruling of Federal Judge Herbert W. Christenberry, he decided that the unit rates of Nicholson were indeed unfair competition.

The article focuses on the ruling by the Fifth Court of Civil Appeals in Dallas, Texas, on lifting the tax exemption provision given to private businesses that build toll roads.

The article focuses on the trial of the periodicals "Confidential" and "Whisper" for the alleged conspiracy in publishing obscenity and libel. It says that publisher Robert Harrison of "Confidential" became persistent on lewd reporting. It mentions the testimony by former "Confidential" editor Howard Rushmore on several freelancers for the magazine, such as United Press Hollywood Reporter Aline Mosby, who were demanded by Harrison for hot, inside material.

The article focuses on the lawsuits facing investment firm Goldman Sachs which involve an issue of 82 million dollars worth of Penn Central Transportation Co. notes in 1971. Buyers of the notes include mutual fund Fundamental Investors, American Express, Walt Disney and Getty Oil. The plaintiffs argued that they relied on Goldman to sell them only paper of first quality. Goldman has also faced charges arising from a commercial paper, including one placed for Mill Factors Corp.

The article presents the civil suits filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the 1970 bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Co. in which SEC believes it to be fraud. Charges are against Chairman Stuart T. Saunders, accounting firm Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co., and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Moreover, SEC intends to set precedents which include information availability to buyers of commercial paper, accounting awareness, and a doctrine that alerts the directors.

The article reports on the testimony of Daniel Ellsberg, an employee of Rand Corp., and Anthony Russo Jr., a researcher of Rand Corp., on the criminal case charged against them in the U.S. The defendants have been accused of stealing the Pentagon Papers and breach of national security. However, the hearing did not reveal a study on the Pentagon's Viet Nam War.

The article focuses on the decision of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to put an end to its fair trade lawsuit against Eastman Kodak Co. in 1955. The FTC rules that fair trade minimum pricing contracts can be signed by a manufacturer with independent retail customers. The federal agency also concludes that the practice of Eastman Kodak is exempted from the antitrust price-fixing bans.

The article offers information about the U.S. Department of Justice charged New Orleans' anti-administration Times Picayune Publishing Co. for illegally keeping business from pro-administration paper, the Item.