12-03-2010, 08:19 AM
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The 23rd Pillar
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Originally Posted by Amnorix
December 3
1901. President Theodore Roosevelt delivers a 20,000 word speech to the Congress, asking it to curb the power of trusts "within reasonable limits". This will lead to the passage of the Sherman Anti-Trust Act, and the subsequent breakup of John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
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Originally Posted by Amnorix
1929. President Hoover announces to Congress that the worst effects of the stock market crash over a month earlier are past the country, and that its population is regaining faith in the economy.
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