In Lexington, Ky., in the U.S. tobacco belt, Thurman Arnold's anti-trust prosecutors this week won the biggest criminal prosecution ever brought to court under the Sherman Act. The $1,000,000,000-a-year tobacco industry's "Big Three" and 13 top executives were convicted by a jury of monopoly, conspiracy and price-fixing. The list of those convicted looked like a "Who's Who" of the industry: > American Tobacco Co. (Lucky Strikes) ; President George Washington Hill; Vice Presidents Paul M. Hahn and Vincent Riggio. Also convicted were American Suppliers, Inc. (an American subsidiary) and its...
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