1. T R Roosevelt
... . He was known as a trustbuster (which he was;) however, he was not against large corporations. He himself helped build up U.S Steel, the steel company which controlled sixty percent of the nation's steel industry. The first trust Roosevelt went after was a railroad company called the Northern Security Company which was created in 1901. Roosevelt followed this anti trust suit with about forty ... still less, and the commission also recommended a ten percent increase in the price of coal, ample compensation for the wage increase." (388) He also tried to reform the production of food. Upto...
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