Five Brothers Trust Regulation Plan for Business Reform
President Wilson outlined a five part program to curb monopoly and restore competition. Congress acted quickly with bills expanding agricultural college support and farm mortgage credit while probes into Michigan copper and Colorado coal strikes proceeded. A railroad victory and other political shifts marked a turbulent week in labor and finance.
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Mines Committee
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Colorado
Mother Jones
Th United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Delaware and Hudson Railroad
Federal Mediation Commission
Marshall
Clark
Senate
Bathrick
Ohio
President outlines five antitrust reform bills and goals
President Wilson unveils a five part program to curb interlocking directorates and regulate railroads and trusts. He urges a Trade Commission, tighter Sherman Act definitions, and new rules to curb monopoly with bipartisan backing anticipated in Congress.
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Interstate Trade Commission
Adamson
Georgia
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Great Trusts
Taft Attacks Reform In Public Address
Former President Taft to Pierce Business School graduates in Philadelphia denounces reform programs like initiative referendum and direct primaries as nostrums and urges public restraint on sex discussion. Daniels reports cost data for telephones and telegraphs suggesting government takeover could save one third. Goethals named Panama Canal governor with broad powers.
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Philadelphia
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Daniels
Congress
New Jersey
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Tusday
Trenton
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The
United Mine Workers
Indianapolis
Goethals
Canal Zone
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George William Goethals
Panama Canal
Phipps to Finance Radium Centers
Henry Phipps the millionaire steel magnate is linked to a proposed $15 million endowment for radium institutes, a claim raised by John M. Flannery of Pittsburg before the House Mines Committee while opposing lands withdrawal for radium ores. Flannery did not name Phipps publicly but insiders knew the reference.
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Senate
House Committee On Mines
Howard Kelly
Baltimore
Colorado
Phipps
Henry Phipps
John M. Flannery
Pittsburg
Flannery
L. J. Henderson
Harvard University
John Hopkins University
J. H. Smith
University of Pittsburg Civil Engineering Department
Miners Demand Probe Into Strikes Across Congress
Resolutions call on Congress to investigate the miners' strikes in both regions. The motion seeks formal inquiries into labor unrest and production disruptions, urging action by lawmakers to assess causes and impact.
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Congress
Mexican Refugee Wards Move to El Paso
Three thousand six hundred Mexican Army troops and over fifteen hundred dependents fled to Texas after Ojinaga. They are moved on foot to Marfa then by train to El Paso for care at US government expense. War Department seeks reimbursement from Mexico for $100,000. General Mercado and aides are prisoners. he accuses Generals Orozco and Salazar of treachery. Continued on Page Seven.
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Marfa
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el Paso
Mexico
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State Department
Mercado
Orozco
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