Word: trusts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...your timely expose of the Taft letter, which to many of your readers was unknown, was I am sure, very much like the discovery of a letter written by Abraham Lincoln in 1857 applauding the Dred Scott decision; or Theodore Roosevelt's posthumous missive condemning the Sherman Anti-Trust law; or a communication of William McKinley condoning the destruction of the Maine...
...President Coolidge assured inquirers that he would approve a budget provision to continue the Federal Trade Commission's investigation of the political and financial activities of interstate public utility companies (power trust). The latest development in this inquiry was the refusal of the Electric Bond and Share Co., wide-ramified holding company, to surrender information sought by the Commission. If the case gets into the courts the Commission's work may be so delayed that the promised appropriation will not be spent for years...
...Senator Norris, to whom water power was the dominant issue, there was only one course. Last week, from the same platform in Omaha where Nominee Smith was first introduced to the mid lands, he declared himself a Smith man and made the power trust a campaign monster...
...recited the nationwide propaganda methods of the National Electric Light Association and the American Gas Asso ciation affecting commercial clubs, boy scouts, women's clubs, public schools, pul pits, colleges, the public press. "This trust is in politics from the White House down to the school district!" he cried...
Among the other articles in prospect are the following: "Vicarious Admissions" by Professor E. M. Morgan '02, an important contribution to the law of Evidence; an article by a well known New York corporation lawyer on the liabilities of a trustee under a corporate trust indenture; a discussion of multiple incorporation and the conflict of laws. "The Higher Law Background of American Constitutional Law", by E. S. Corwin; a valuable critique of some phases of present federal equity practice, as well as articles by Dean Roscoe Pound, Professors Zecharian Chafee and F. B. Sayre and other noted professors...