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Show DECLARES SHERMAN LAW HAS PROVEN EFFECTIVE Former Attorney General Wicker-sham Wicker-sham Points Out Results in Two Notable Cases. .New York. George V. Wicker-sham, Wicker-sham, former attorney general of the L'nited States, in an address before the Nassau County Bar association Saturday night, said that the division of the Standard Oil and tobacco companies com-panies under the Sherman law had been effective, despite the belief of many to the contrary. Mr. Wlckersham said that ' undue confidence in the immediate results of anti-trust legislation had blinded the public to what had really been accomplished against monopolistic corporations. "When the Standard Oil and tobacco tobac-co companies were divided," he said, "the fact that the same persons were stockholders in all of the distributed corporations was used to support the contention that the dissolution was not real. "But these companies were separated separ-ated and forbidden by the court to combine anew, and in the case of the tobacco companies forbidden to have common officers, common directors or common agents. "I said at the time of the dissolution dissolu-tion that those facts inevitably would lead to a further severance of interest." |