Professor of Law at Yale from 1931 to 1938, THURMAN ARNOLD entered public service as Assistant Attorney General of the United States and then as Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Now, after several years in private practice, he has come to a deeper appreciation of the vital part the antitrust laws have played in the stimulation of our commercial independence.
The government employee is already set apart from other citizens by many drastic procedures concerning his loyalty, occupational expenses, and habit of life. Now comes a bill which would put his ”ethics” under the permanent scrutiny of a commission with subpoena power and a staff of investigators. Some of the unsuspected aspects of this kind of regulation are pointed out by THURMAN ARNOLD, Professor of Law at Yale from 1931 to 1938; Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 1938 to 1943; and former Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
As no other medium could, television showed the American public many harsh truths about organized crime and its connections with government. The lesson went home to millions of Americans. But as THURMAN ARNOLD is quick to perceive, such a spectacle in the future could completely invalidate the due process of law. Mr. Arnold was Professor of Law at Yale from 1931 to 1938; he was Assistant Attorney General of the United States from 1938 to 1943, and he is now practicing law in Washington.