The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle (1931)

VICTORY 125 and natural," and that any violation of this principle was illegal. Further, that the two defendant companies were guilty in considered terms of such interference. Further, again, that the "so-called" license arrangements were likewise illegal, and should be forbidden. Although, to reduce the case to its elements, it would be unnecessary to forbid anything if the United States were supported in the rational plea that this corrupt organisation should be dissolved. In conclusion of this intermediate section of the brief, the attention of the court was respectfully directed to twelve rulings in the affairs of the Standard Oil Company and the Tobacco Corporations. Finally, the validity of most of the alleged patents pleaded by the Trust was seriously disputed. Before 1908, nobody had considered the film industry worth bothering about. Its material had been traded at trifling costs and with no reservations. A precedent had thereby been constituted. Edison had attempted to prove his claim to governing patent rights, and had failed. The menace of Sherman, in short, was over all these pretensions of the Trust. The best war-story tells us that General Pershing, newly arrived in France, halted at the head of his staff to salute a conspicuous statue with "Lafayette, we are here." Later scepticism discredits the incident. In the same way I am prepared to hear that a lady-mayoress of New York