SUGAR: Roulette

The most sensational development so far in the sugar scandal is the perpetual injunction petitioned for by the Government to restrain the New York Coffee and Sugar Exchange and the Sugar Clearing Association from carrying on any more speculative dealings in sugar. The injunction petition bears the signatures of Attorney General Daugherty, Solicitor General James M. Beck and five assistants representing the highest legal talent in the Government, and aims to " make the gamblers in sugar remove their roulette wheel from the American breakfast table."

The Government charged in its petition that...

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