Religion, politics, and sugar : the Mormon Church, the federal government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921

Religion, politics, and sugar : the Mormon Church, the federal government, and the Utah-Idaho Sugar Company, 1907-1921 /

"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...

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Author / Contributor: Godfrey, Matthew C (Author)
Imprint: Logan, Utah : Utah State University Press, [2007]
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Subjects:
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Finance.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints > Political activity.
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Utah-Idaho Sugar Company
Beet sugar industry > United States > History.
Sugar trade > Government policy > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The establishment of the sugar industry in Utah and Idaho, 1851-1907
  • Before the Hardwick Committee of the House of Representatives
  • National sugar policies and the First World War
  • Political and legal troubles in the aftermath of the First World War
  • Restraint of trade : Federal Trade Commission volume Utah-Idaho Sugar
  • Conclusion.

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