I therefore request and direct that a proceeding in equity be filed, seeking the dissolution of unlawful monopolization of transportation in New England territory now sought to be maintained by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company.
Woodrow Wilson: “I therefore request and direct that a proceeding in equity be filed, seeking the dissolution of unlawful monopolization…”
On the recordJuly 20, 1914
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Orders to the Attorney General on Dissolution of New England Railroad Mergers
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