Religion, Politics, and Sugar: The Mormon Church, the Federal Government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907 to 1921

One famous target of Progressive Era attempts to rein in monopolistic big business was the eastern Sugar Trust. Less known is how federal regulators also tried to break monopoly control over beet sugar in the West by going after the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, a business supported and controlled by th...

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Main Author: Godfrey, Matthew C. (Author)
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Published: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] Utah State University, University Libraries 2007
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