15 Sept 1903 Jahr - Supreme Court rules Northern Securities Company as a unlawful (Mar. 1904)

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TR first attacked Northern Securities Company (1902); JP Morgan’s & James J. Hill’s RR holding company; Morgan & Hill got massive monopoly of RR in NW → TR challenging v powerful boys; RR promoters appealed to Supreme Court (1904), upheld TR’s antitrust suit, ordered Northern Securities Company to be dissolved; Decision scared Wall Street, angered big business, enhanced TR’s image as trust-smasher;

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