Having already cleared Aluminum Co. of America of maintaining an illegal monopoly (TIME, Oct. 13), Federal Judge Francis Gordon Caffey last week wiped Alcoa's slate clean of the other Government charges of conspiracy and miscellaneous misconduct. With his marathon ad lib decision completedit took him ten days to dictate it in open court, covered 680 pages the longest (April 1937 to last week) lawsuit in U.S. history was over. The 72-year-old judge swiftly left Manhattan for a six-week vacation in Maine.
Alcoa officials listened modestly to Judge Caffey's praise of their chairman, Arthur V. Davis ("he has contributed more to...
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