Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Candidate LaFollette followed a serpentine trail from Maryland through New York to Boston, to Pittsburgh, to Cleveland, attacking in turn the sugar trust, J. P. Morgan, the Standard Oil, the water power trust, "American Imperialism," Mellon Aluminum Interests?and ceased to be a candidate...
...dear Mr. Ford-Your letter withdrawing your offer for the purchase of Muscle Shoals has been received. On account of the delay and probable shifting in conditions, I can understand how you may feel justified in not keeping your offer open for a longer period. I trust, however, that should the Congress conclude that it is best to restore this property to private ownership, you will at that time renew your interest in the project...
Next he turned east to Newark, declaring that following the War: "The railroads, the banks, the Steel Trust, the Coal Trust, most of all, the Munition Trusts, laid their hands on the Government and the people and extorted from them such tribute as privilege for carrying forward the War. The Democratic Party lost its last vestige of democracy. The Republican Party lost its last semblance of freedom. Both the old parties became private things, palsied agencies of the popular will...
...Gray received his A.B. at the University in 1877, three years later he received his LL.B. and was admitted to the bar. Afterwards he wrote "The Law of Communications by Telegraph". He is a director of the New England Trust Company, and the Boston and Albany Railroad. He is also a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and since 1914 has been President of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...
These negotiations are made necessary by the termination, next January, of the trade relations between the two countries as expressed in the Treaty of Versailles. Their importance may be considerable. On both sides are men who avowedly sponsor a great steel trust. In France's Lorraine are found Europe's greatest iron deposits; in Germany's Ruhr Valley are the greatest deposits of coal. An agreement to abolish the duties upon iron ore entering Germany and upon coal entering France would have but one effect: France and Germany would be able to undersell their foreign steel competitors...