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The president’s dramatic prosecution of Northern Securities immediately won him popular acclaim as a virile “trustbuster”; and, true enough, over the following seven years, his administration would launch forty-four more antitrust suits against other large corporate combinations, among them such giants as Standard Oil and American Tobacco. But TR
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At a far pole from accountable public trust, or constitutional duty, Hoover corrupted the FBI to wage political war.
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Elmer M. Ellsworth, a special assistant to Governor Winship, was a member of this hand-picked jury.
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By 1883, Gould had become the dominant owner of, or controlling shareholder in, or chief executive of, literally dozens of railroads, some of them only for brief periods of time. The blur of activity sent shock waves of alarm through competitors even as it delighted stock traders, many of whom grew wealthy divining what Gould was up to and
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it. Unfazed, Wilson used his power as chief executive to segregate the federal government.
James W. Loewen • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
provided. 8Send me also cedar, cypress, and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants are skilled in cutting Lebanon timber.