On the record
As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders they wrongfully seek to carry the property and the interests entrusted to them into the arena of partisan politics.
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Roosevelt criticizes corporate leaders for misusing their power for partisan politics instead of serving shareholders.
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