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- ↑ "Seller of Patent Can't Prescribe Prices or Sales of Product, Says Supreme Court". The New York Times . November 19, 1912. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
Attorney General Wickersham and the Administration of President Taft won a distinct victory to-day when the United States Supreme Court affirmed the opinion of the Federal District Court for Maryland that the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and forty-nine other defendants, constituting the so-called Bathtub Trust, was a combination in restraint of trade and should be dissolved.
- ↑ "Joseph R. Darling Resigns". The Christian Science Monitor . December 1, 1913. Archived from the original on October 21, 2012. Retrieved 2009-07-23.
Joseph R. Darling, special agent of the department of justice, resigns to enter business Jan. 1 next. He prepared two government cases against the bathtub, harvester, motion picture and other so-called trusts.