Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Libel)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
List of References on Federal Control of Commerce and Corporations
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antitrust law
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
In the Supreme Court of the United States, October Term, 1903
Author: United StatesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Trials (Libel)
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
In the Supreme Court of the United States, Oct. Term, 1903
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Proceedings
Author: Nebraska State Bar AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bar associations
Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Railway Age
Author: Select List of Works Relating to Taxation of Inheritances and of Incomes
Author: Library of Congress. Division of BibliographyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Income tax
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
United States Supreme Court Reports
Author: United States. Supreme CourtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1432
Book Description
First series, books 1-43, includes "Notes on U.S. reports" by Walter Malins Rose.
Annual List of New and Important Books Added to the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Harriman vs. Hill
Author: Larry HaegPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 145293990X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
In 1901, the Northern Pacific was an unlikely prize: a twice-bankrupt construction of the federal government, it was a two-bit railroad (literally—five years back, its stock traded for twenty-five cents a share). But it was also a key to connecting eastern markets through Chicago to the rising West. Two titans of American railroads set their sights on it: James J. Hill, head of the Great Northern and largest individual shareholder of the Northern Pacific, and Edward Harriman, head of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific. The subsequent contest was unprecedented in the history of American enterprise, pitting not only Hill against Harriman but also Big Oil against Big Steel and J. P. Morgan against the Rockefellers, with a supporting cast of enough wealthy investors to fill the ballroom of the Waldorf Astoria. The story, told here in full for the first time, transports us to the New York Stock Exchange during the unfolding of the earliest modern-day stock market panic. Harriman vs. Hill re-creates the drama of four tumultuous days in May 1901, when the common stock of the Northern Pacific rocketed from one hundred ten dollars a share to one thousand in a mere seventeen hours of trading—the result of an inadvertent “corner” caused by the opposing forces. Panic followed and then, in short order, a calamity for the “shorts,” a compromise, the near-collapse of Wall Street brokerages and banks, the most precipitous decline ever in American stock values, and the fastest recovery. Larry Haeg brings to life the ensuing stalemate and truce, which led to the forming of a holding company, briefly the biggest railroad combine in American history, and the U.S. Supreme Court ruling against the deal, launching the reputation of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes as the “great dissenter” and President Theodore Roosevelt as the “trust buster.” The forces of competition and combination, unfettered growth, government regulation, and corporate ambition—all the elements of American business at its best and worst—come into play in the account of this epic battle, whose effects echo through our economy to this day.