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Teddy Roosevelt: What we need is to have some administrative body with ample power to forbid combination that is hurtful to the public…

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What we need is to have some administrative body with ample power to forbid combination that is hurtful to the public, and to prevent favoritism to one individual at the expense of another.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

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Roosevelt calls for an administrative body to prevent harmful combinations in commerce.

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