Joseph Robinson Darling (1872 - September 7, 1957) was a special agent of the United States Department of Justice

United States Department of Justice

The United States Department of Justice , is the United States federal executive department responsible for the enforcement of the law and administration of justice, equivalent to the justice or interior ministries of other countries.The Department is led by the Attorney General, who is nominated...

, author, promoter, explorer, and soldier of fortune

Mercenary

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Biography

He prepared two government cases against the Bathtub Trust

Bathtub Trust

The Bathtub Trust was where the Standard Sanitary Manufacturing Company and forty-nine other companies engaged in anti-competitive practices in 1912. The case was heard by the Supreme Court of the United States as Standard Sanitary Mfg. Co. v. United States. Joseph R. Darling was a special agent of...

, International Harvester

International Harvester

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, and Motion Picture Patents Company

Motion Picture Patents Company

The Motion Picture Patents Company , founded in December 1908, was a trust of all the major American film companies , the leading film distributor and the biggest supplier of raw film stock, Eastman Kodak...

. On January 1, 1914 he resigned from the Department of Justice to enter business. In 1915 he wrote "Darling on Trusts" a legal treatise. He died in Miami, Florida

Miami, Florida

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on September 6, 1957.