Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
A History of the Northern Securities Case
Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Hour of Fate
Author: Susan BerfieldPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635572479
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
A riveting narrative of Wall Street buccaneering, political intrigue, and two of American history's most colossal characters, struggling for mastery in an era of social upheaval and rampant inequality. It seemed like no force in the world could slow J. P. Morgan's drive to power. In the summer of 1901, the financier was assembling his next mega-deal: Northern Securities, an enterprise that would affirm his dominance in America's most important industry-the railroads. Then, a bullet from an anarchist's gun put an end to the business-friendly presidency of William McKinley. A new chief executive bounded into office: Theodore Roosevelt. He was convinced that as big business got bigger, the government had to check the influence of the wealthiest or the country would inch ever closer to collapse. By March 1902, battle lines were drawn: the government sued Northern Securities for antitrust violations. But as the case ramped up, the coal miners' union went on strike and the anthracite pits that fueled Morgan's trains and heated the homes of Roosevelt's citizens went silent. With millions of dollars on the line, winter bearing down, and revolution in the air, it was a crisis that neither man alone could solve. Richly detailed and propulsively told, The Hour of Fate is the gripping story of a banker and a president thrown together in the crucible of national emergency even as they fought in court. The outcome of the strike and the case would change the course of our history. Today, as the country again asks whether saving democracy means taming capital, the lessons of Roosevelt and Morgan's time are more urgent than ever. Winner of the 2021 Theodore Roosevelt Association Book Prize Finalist for the Presidential Leadership Book Award
A History of the Northern Securities Case
Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerLaw and Economic Policy in America
Author: William LetwinPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226473536
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
William Letwin's thorough, carefully argued, and elegantly written work is the only book length study of the Sherman Antitrust Act, a law designed to shape the economic life of a large complex society through maintaining the "correct" level of competition in the economy. This is a superb history and complete analysis of the Act, from its English and American common law antecedents to the events that led to the first revisions of the Act in the form of the Clayton Antitrust and Federal Trade Commission Acts.
History for Ready Reference
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 822
Book Description
"This work has two aims : to represent and exhibit the better Literature of History in the English language, and to give it an organized body--a system--adapted to the greatest convenience in any use, whether for reference, or for reading, for teacher, student, or casual inquirer."--v. 1, Preface.
A History of Minnesota
Author: William Watts FolwellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Minnesota
Languages : en
Pages : 670
Book Description
John A. Johnson
Author: Winifred HelmesPublisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 0816600546
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
The first native-born governor of Minnesota, and the only Democrat to have been elected to that office three times, was also the first Minnesotan to have a presidential nomination within his grasp. This study of a man who was, perhaps, the state?s most b.
Robert Bacon
Author: James Brown ScottPublisher: Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday Page
ISBN:
Category : Cabinet officers
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
The New Larned History for Ready Reference, Reading and Research
Author: Josephus Nelson LarnedPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 970
Book Description
A History of the Northern Securities Case
Author: Balthasar Henry MeyerPublisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230421674
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER III. THE ORGANIZATION. The organization of a holding company having been determined, it was necessary to decide upon the form and contents of a charter, or articles of incorporation, and the state in which the incorporation should take place. The general nature of the contents of such a charter had been discussed practically as long as the idea of a holding company had been entertained by the men interested in the matter;44 namely, for something like seven or eight years. The specific nature of such a charter for this particular company was not made the object of study until after the Arbitration Agreement of May 31, 1901. About this time several men began an examination of the laws of a number of states for the purpose of discovering a suitable charter and of deciding upon the state in which the company should be incorporated. The decision with reference to the place of incorporation was not made until a few days before the company was actually incorporated.46 The general aim in searching for a charter and a state "was to have beyond any question the power to purchase, own and hold and dispose of corporate securities on a large scale."49 Between June and October several different sketches of articles of incorporation were made47 and submitted to seven or eight men. These men were scattered so that no formal meeting for the consideration of the articles was ever held.48 The sketch referred to left blank the name of the corporation, the name of the state in which it was to be incorporated, and the amount of the capital stock. "There was practically no change in the substance of it from the beginning."40 Among the earliest efforts was a search for a special charter granted by the territory of Minnesota prior to the adoption of the...