Index of Subjects

Compiled by Patrick Newman

Academy of Political Science, 473–74

Aerial Coast Patrol, 488

Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 383–84, 387, 534, 538

Agricultural Marketing Act, 524

Alabama Midland Railway decision, 86

Aldrich-Vreeland Act, 471

Aldrich Bill, 475–77, 512

Alien and Sedition Laws, 112

Alliance of Throne and Altar, 20, 30–31, 37, 273–74, 318, 361–12, 383, 397–99, 420, 428, 450, 468, 517–18

Amendment 43, 307–08

American Acceptance Council, 504

American Alliance for Labor and Democracy, 424

American Association for Labor Legislation, 291–94, 339, 358–60, 442–43, 515

American Association for the Advancement of Science, 256, 455, 460

American Association of University Women, 306–07

American Baking Powder Association, 250

American Bankers Association, 181, 469–70, 472, 476–77, 483, 510

American Beet Sugar Association, 251

American Bible Society, 304

American Bimetallic League, 182

American Construction Council, 516

American Economic Association, 291, 336, 431, 449

American Engineering Council, 460, 516, 518

American Expeditionary Force, 388, 417

American Federation of Labor, 276–77, 281, 326, 340, 365, 508, 516–18, 520, 526, 537

American Forestry Association, 254–56

American Institute for Christian Sociology, 340

American Institute of Social Service, 403

American Institute of Steel Construction, 536

American Iron and Steel Association, 154–55

American Iron and Steel Institute, 366

American Lumberman, 255

American Manufacturers Export Association, 392

American Meat Producers’ Association, 239

American Medical Association, 249, 355

American Party, 306

American Pharmaceutical Association, 249

American Political Science Association, 443

American Press Association, 264

American Protective Association, 151, 153–54, 168, 189, 307, 311

American Protestant Association, 179

American Revolutionary War, 18–20, 112

American Social Hygiene Association, 415–16

American Society for the Prevention of the Adulteration of Food, 247

American Society of Civil Engineers, 271

American Statistical Association, 449

American Sugar Refining Company, 101–04, 378

American Telephone and Telegraph Co., 365, 372, 442, 444, 457–58, 483, 528

American Vanadium Co., 367

Anaconda Copper, 366

Andover Theological Seminary, 334, 438

Anti-Saloon League, 131, 151, 187, 339, 402–07, 432

Anti-Submarine Council, 456

Arizona Wool Growers’ Association, 259

Armour, J.O., 238

Army Corps of Engineers, 270–71

Arrowhead Reservoir Company, 268

Asian Petroleum Co., 233

Associated Advertising Clubs of the World, 364

Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, 355

Association of Collegiate Alumnae, 306–07

Association of National Advertisers, 464

Association of Official Agricultural Chemists, 246, 249

Association of Railroad Executives, 395

Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 76, 84, 88, 223, 290, 381, 457, 473, 482

Atlantic Coast Railroad, 381

Austrian economics, 17, 53–54, 217, 288, 436–37

Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, 50, 55, 62, 63, 70, 79, 88, 281, 365, 367, 379

Baltimore Anti-Vice Society, 221

Bangs, Stetson, Tracy, and MacVeagh, 200, 482

Bank for International Settlements, 509

Bank of Denison, 470

Bank of England, 489, 492, 494, 498–99, 512

Bank of France, 489–90, 493, 499

Bank of Manhattan Company, 503

Bankers’ Trust Company, 468, 481, 483

Banks

acceptance, 502–04

central, 111, 113, 119, 183, 331, 463–64, 466, 470, 474–75, 478, 489, 492–94, 499–500

See Federal Reserve Act, System

free, 166–67, 183, 464–66, 479, 510–11

investment, 48–49, 93, 107, 176, 199–200, 203, 211, 275–76, 289, 294, 335, 349, 356, 468, 470, 472–73, 521

national, 46, 111, 166–67, 465–66, 476, 485

savings, 395, 530

state, 46, 166–67, 465–66, 476, 485, 487

trust, 467

See Money

Baring Bros, 490

Bennett Law, 142–45, 149, 168, 189

Bethlehem Steel, 374

Beveridge Bill, 239–41

Big Four Railroad, 284, 289

Billion Dollar Congress, 153

Birth Control Review, 315

Bismarckian socialism, 30, 37–38, 274, 282, 336, 430, 442, 459, 470, 473–74

Board of Child Welfare, 355

Board of Trade of New York, 290

Boilermakers Union, 278

Boone and Crockett Club, 209–10, 256

Borden Milk Company, 349, 355

Boston and Maine Railroad, 200, 225–26

Boston Trade Union League, 348

Boston University, 346

Bowery Savings Bank, 354

Britain, 19, 35, 111, 205–07, 329, 342, 363, 432, 437, 473, 484, 488–94, 497–99, 505, 507, 512, 521

British, 118, 127, 139, 151, 169, 172, 173, 298–99, 309, 329, 405

Brookings Institution, 454

Brotherhood of Firemen and Engineers, 387

Brown Brothers, 496

Buck’s Stove and Range Company, 285

Bureau of Animal Industry, 242, 243, 247

Bureau of Chemistry, 255–56

Bureau of Corporations, 84, 214, 216, 218–22, 224, 226–27, 238, 260, 288–91

Bureau of Ethnology, 269

Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, 449, 520, 538

Bureau of Forestry, 254

Bureau of Labor Statistics, 292, 438, 452

Bureau of Municipal Research, 353, 433–444

Bureau of Reclamation Service, 265–66

Bureau of Social Hygiene, 415

Burlington Railroad, 60–66, 200, 262, 381, 470

Business Advisory Committee, 356–59

Business Men’s Commission on Agriculture, 524

Businessman’s Training Camp, 488

Businessweek, 509

California Institute of Technology, 453

California Railroad Commission, 380

Calumet and Hecla Mining, 366

Capper-Williams Bill, 524

Carriage Builders’ National Association, 255

Catholic Total Abstinence Union, 131

Carey Act, 263–64

Carnegie Corp., 448, 451, 457

Carnegie Foundation, 458–59

Carnegie Steel Co., 81, 202

Cartels

bank, 463–66, 478–79, 483–85, 487, 489, 504, 510–12

government enforced, 25–26, 30, 39, 41, 107, 180, 211–12, 215–17, 223, 236–42, 249–50, 253, 256, 260, 267, 280, 287, 289, 318–20, 327, 354, 397, 427, 430, 448–49, 468–69, 473–75, 511

failure on the market, 25, 30, 39, 41, 56–59, 93–107, 231, 237–38, 318, 327, 468–69, 511, 516, 519–25, 533–36

World War I, 361–96, 409, 413, 445

See Mergers, Railroads/Pools; Trade associations

Cato Institute, 16, 24

Cato’s Letters, 20

Central Bureau of Planning and Statistics, 445–47

Central Pacific Railroad, 42–44, 46, 59, 70, 74

Central Republic Bank and Trust Co., 531

Chamber of Commerce

Boston, 442

New York, 470

Philadelphia, 359

San Francisco, 307

U.S., 363, 365–67, 370–72, 389, 391, 433, 442, 476, 515–16, 519–20, 524, 536–37

Charity Organization Society of New York, 419

Chase National Bank, 468, 470–71

Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, 88

Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad, 85

Chicago and Northwestern Railroad, 60

Chicago Association of Commerce, 447

Chicago Civic Federation, 274–76, 285, 289

Chicago Edison and Commonwealth Electric, 285

Chicago Great Western Railroad, 381

Chicago Inter-Ocean, 74

Chicago Railway Review, 72

Chicago Telephone Co., 483

Chicago Tribune, 346

Chicago, Indianapolis, and Louisville Railroad, 89

Chicago, Rock Island, and Pacific Railroad, 60

Child labor laws, 157, 216, 292, 333, 349, 403, 413, 535

China, 152, 222, 428

Chinese Exclusion Act, 152

Christian Social Union, 336, 432

Christian Union, 47

Christodora House, 355

Cincinnati Enquirer, 140

Cincinnati Law and Order Association, 139

Citizens National Railroad League, 395

Citizen’s Reconstruction Organization, 529

Civil Service Reform, 123–24, 203–04, 208, 219, 221, 275

Civil Service Reform Association, 208

Civil War, 34, 41–42, 45–47, 54, 67, 74–75, 91, 93, 101, 111, 113–16, 121, 123, 131, 135, 141, 145, 153, 162, 166, 167, 180, 183, 185, 199, 203, 245, 256, 258, 324, 334, 347, 453, 465–66

Civilian Conservation Corps, 388, 534

Clayton Act, 291

Cleveland Commission, 443–44, 447

College Settlement Association, 344, 346, 353

Columbia University, 276–77, 289, 335–36, 350, 420, 443, 449, 455–56, 473

Commercial and Financial Chronicle, 73, 451

Commission on Training Camp Activities, 414–15, 416

Committee for Industrial Organization, 537

Committee on Economic Security, 357–58

Committee on Industrial Preparedness, 364

Committee on Public Information, 429, 435

Commodity Committees, 366, 370

Commonwealth Club of California, 307

Compulsory publicity, 211–12, 215–16, 276, 289, 448

Compromise of 1877, 70, 114

Conference of Governors, 516–17

Congress for Constructive Patriotism, 411

Conservation of resources, 209, 216, 252–94, 522, 534–35

Conservation Division, 368–69, 391, 444–45

Conservation League of America, 260

Consolidated Gas, 277, 288

Cornell University, 213, 345, 456

Cotton Textile Institute, 523, 535

Council of National Defense, 364, 368, 409, 444, 455

Council on Foreign Relations, 275, 448

Cravath and Henderson, 496

Crowell and Little Construction Co., 365

Crucible Steel, 374

Cuba, 207, 251, 377–78

Cullom Bill, 73, 77

Cummins Bill, 395

Daughters of the American Revolution, 261

Declaration of Independence, 112

Deep Waterways Association, 260

Deere and Co., 100, 367

Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Railroad, 65

Democratic Party

Bourbon, 31–32, 75, 120, 137, 163, 166, 169, 176, 179, 184, 188, 199–200

Civil War and Reconstruction era, 42, 48, 113–15, 166

ethnoreligious, 31–32, 115–97, 296, 299, 303–14, 329, 331, 399, 400–01

Jacksonian, 18, 31, 42, 73, 110, 112–13, 486

laissez-faire, 25–27, 31–32, 75, 110, 112, 118–19, 136, 140–41, 163, 166–67, 169, 161, 178–79, 186, 199–200, 206, 228, 277–78, 283, 286, 319, 327, 331, 261, 344, 361–63, 368, 398, 401, 440, 508–09

National Gold Democrat, 176–77, 184–85

populists, 32, 40, 120, 141, 167, 177, 181–85, 188, 475, 477

railroads, 69, 71, 74–76, 89–90

slavery, 110–13, 400

Southern, 32, 70–71, 112–15, 120, 138, 140, 153, 163, 167–70, 179, 183, 185–87, 331, 358, 400

Straight-Out, 137

Tammany Hall, 208, 305, 319

See Bryan, William J.; Cleveland, Grover; New Deal; Roosevelt, Franklin D.; Wilson, Woodrow

Democrat-Republican, 110

Department of Agriculture, 216, 220, 237, 239, 241–42, 244–46, 248–51, 253–54, 258, 291, 357, 465, 511, 533

Department of Commerce, 294, 354, 356, 383–86, 391–92, 448, 451, 494, 513–14, 535–36

Department of Commerce and Labor, 213–14, 219, 276–79, 289

Department of the Interior, 32, 202, 213, 254, 256, 259, 266, 260, 263–66, 351, 535, 538

Department of Justice, 200, 202, 214, 220–21, 223–24, 233–34, 277, 391, 394, 448

Department of Labor, 352–53, 357, 360, 393, 445, 452

Department of the Navy, 84, 200, 202, 205–06, 223, 364, 385, 414, 417

Department of the Post Office, 223

Department of State, 200–01, 222–23, 231, 277, 354, 378, 490

Department of the Treasury, 45–46, 201, 217, 236, 274, 276–77, 352, 354, 365–66, 381, 400, 444, 447–48, 458, 469, 481–82, 486, 490, 495–96, 499, 508, 511, 516, 528–29, 531

Department of War, 200, 202, 211, 213, 212, 277, 365, 390, 414–18, 425, 453

Desert Land Act, 265–66

Des Moines Regency, 470

Detroit and Indianapolis Boards of Trade, 77

Diamond Match Co., 229

Dingley Tariff, 101, 103, 167, 250

Discount Corporation of New York, 503

Division of Chemistry, 246, 249

Dollar Diplomacy System, 206

Drexel, Morgan & Co., 48

Drexel Institute, 365

DuPont, 358, 363, 365, 460

Eastman Kodak, 357, 458

Edison Electric, 281

Edwards Law, 144, 176

Election

of 1872, 136–37

of 1876, 114, 122, 192

of 1880, 192

of 1884, 192, 339, 400

of 1888, 192

of 1890, 135–48, 309

of 1892, 114–05, 145, 140, 151, 164–78, 192, 309

of 1894, 163–79

of 1896, 25–26, 29, 31, 35, 40, 115, 120, 130, 164–90, 192, 331, 398, 400, 440

of 1900, 164, 192, 213

of 1904, 192, 213, 224, 226, 279, 290

of 1906, 225

of 1908, 164, 192

of 1910, 475

of 1912, 115, 192, 477

of 1920, 514

of 1928, 115, 524

of 1932, 525

See Ethnoreligious politics; Party System; Politics

Elkins Anti-Rebating Act, 81, 219–20, 227

Emergency Committee for Employment, 529, 532

Emergency Fleet Corporation, 387–88

Emergency Relief and Construction Act, 532

Employment Stabilization Act, 529

Engineering Foundation, 454–57, 460

Engineering Society of Public Analysts, 247

Equitable Life Assurance Society, 200–01, 222–23

Erie Railroad, 50, 61–63, 72–74

Esch-Townsend Bill, 82

Esch Bill, 395

Espionage Act, 434

Ethnoreligious politics, “New Political History,” 26, 31–32, 34–35, 38, 109, 113–97, 285, 295–320, 400–01

See Election; Liturgicals; Pietists; Politics

Eugenical News, 314

Eugenics, 39–40, 282, 314–16

Examiner, 307

Farmers, 39, 49–51, 56, 68–69, 74, 77, 123, 143, 162–65, 170–71, 184, 187, 245–49, 256–58, 265–66, 291, 313–14, 465, 478, 510–11, 523–25, 532–33

Farmers’ Alliance, 187, 248

Farmers’ National Congress, 249

Federal Advisory Council, 479, 504

Federal Control Act, 382

Federal Council of Churches of Christ, 357, 403

Federal Court of Commerce, 86–87

Federal Credit Association, 354

Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 357

Federal Farm Board, 384–85, 524, 532–33

Federal Home Loan Act, 530

Federal Oil Conservation Board, 522

Federal Power Commission, 534

Federal Reserve Act, System, 26, 28–29, 31–32, 35, 88–89, 291, 439, 463–512, 528, 530

Bank of Kansas City, 499

Bank of New York, 444, 463, 479, 483–86, 489, 493, 495, 496, 498–99, 507, 509, 512

Board, 444, 465, 478–79, 481–84, 487, 489, 496, 501, 506, 512, 531

Federal Trade Commission, 26, 31–32, 84, 88, 291, 384, 391, 464, 474

Federation of Women’s Clubs, 307

First National Bank of Birmingham, 482

First National Bank of Chicago, 201, 274, 469, 475

First National Bank of New York, 468, 474, 482

Florida Sugar Cane Co., 245

Food Administration, 103–04, 366, 374–72, 391, 404, 409–10, 426

See International Sugar Committee; Sugar Equalization Board

Food and Drug Administration, 250

Food regulation, 32, 216, 235–52,

Forbes financial group, 470

Force Bill, 140, 143, 194

Foreign Affairs, 448

Foreign Policy, 26, 28, 38, 203, 205–07, 251, 363, 397, 420–22, 425, 427–28, 433

Forest Management Act, 259

Forest Service, Forest Bureau, Division of Forestry, 210, 254–56, 258, 534

France, 132, 236, 253, 363, 417, 445, 488–90, 493, 499–500, 505, 512, 518

Friedmanite, 177

Fuel Administration, 385, 388

Gambling laws, 157, 208, 310, 330

General Education Board, 276, 532

General Electric, 93, 284, 294, 354, 384, 410, 442, 457–58, 460–61, 489, 528, 536

General Federation of Women’s Clubs, 261

General Land Law Revision Act, 256

General Land Office, 266

General Motors, 358

Genoa Conference, 494

Gentile News, 189

German-American Alliance of Nebraska, 408–09

German American Sound Money League, 176

German Historical School, 429, 437–38, 442

German Reichsbank, 473, 499

Germans, 117, 123–24, 126, 130, 136–44, 146, 148–49, 151, 158, 166, 168, 174–77, 180, 187, 192, 204–05, 254, 298–99, 303, 305–06, 309, 311, 313, 331, 347, 349, 398, 401, 405–06, 408–09, 429, 435, 441, 488–89, 504

Germany, 30, 37, 124, 236, 253, 274, 299, 336, 406, 422, 428–30, 435, 442, 453, 458–59, 470, 472–74, 488–89, 499, 521

Gilded Age, 334

Glass Bill, 477, 512

Gold Exchange Standard, 491–94

Gold Standard Act, 183, 469

Grain Corporation, 377, 533

Grand Army of the Republic, 153

Grand Trunk Railroad, 50, 62, 63

Great Awakening

first, 120

second, 117, 121, 296, 327

Great Northern Railroad, 53

Greenback Party, 138, 156, 310

Greenwich House, 346, 350, 352

Guaranty Trust Co., 181, 468, 481–82

Gulf Oil, 97, 232–33

Harvard, 205, 215, 223, 416, 424, 441–42, 444, 447, 460, 474

Henderson Bill, 71

Henry Street, 346–49, 352

Hepburn Act, 82–86

Hepburn Bill, 290

Hickey Freeman Co., 443

High-License League of Indianapolis, 141

Home Owners Loan Corporation, 354

Homestead Law, 267

Hopkins Bill, 69–70

Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, 365–66, 481–82

Hudson Companies, 482

Hudson Motor Co., 264

Hull House, 341–42, 344–48, 351, 354

Illinois Manufacturing Association, 359, 464

Illinois Staats-Zeitung, 177

Illinois State Board of Charities, 343

Immigration, 31, 38, 40, 110–11, 116–21, 123, 127, 129–30, 136, 138, 143–44, 151–56, 158–60, 190, 292, 299, 301–309, 311, 314–15, 330, 409, 411–13, 527

Immigration Act, 315

Immigration Protective League, 190

Immigration Restriction League, 155

Independent Treasury System, 486

Indianapolis Monetary Convention, 469

Industrial Board, 392–93

Industrial Conference, 517

Industrial Relations Councilors, 357–58

Industrial Revolution, 55, 91–93, 97–98

Ingersoll-Rand, 281

Inland Waterways Commission, 270–71

Institute for Christian Sociology, 336, 432

Institute for Government Research, 443–44, 447–48

Institute for Humane Studies, 24

Intellectuals

court, 20, 25–27, 30, 39, 107, 196–97, 206, 210–12, 215–17, 234, 251–53, 260, 262, 270–94, 302, 308, 327, 350, 362, 381, 383–88, 397–99, 402, 420–36, 468, 474–75, 483, 515

pietist, 37, 40, 316–18, 333–40, 356, 398–99, 414, 421, 430–31, 438–39, 456

revolutionary, 20

secularization of, 26, 32, 316, 333–50, 356, 399, 421, 432

turn to empiricism, 26, 32, 428–31, 436–52

Inter-Church Federation of Vermont, 317

Inter-State Commerce Railway Association, 77–80

Interborough Rapid Transit Company, 278

Intercollegiate Socialist Society, 420

International Acceptance Bank of New York, 503–04

International Association for Labor Legislation, 292

International Association of Technical Engineers, Architects, and Draftsmen, 518

International Harvester, 33–34, 100–01, 218, 220–21, 227, 234, 278, 280, 283, 353, 367, 384, 468, 482–83, 524

International Labor Bureau, 292

International Ladies Garment Workers Union, 352

International Mercantile Marine, 468

International Oil War, 230–34

International Statistical Congress, 437

International Sugar Committee, 377

Interstate Commerce Act, Commission, 26, 34, 69, 73–80, 211, 214–15, 291, 380–82, 395, 438, 464, 468–69, 511

Iowa Pool, 59–61

Irish, 118, 128–32, 136, 151, 166, 174, 176–78, 180, 186, 299, 301, 303–309, 330, 345

Iron Age, 105, 373

Iron Law of Oligarchy, 23–24

Italians, 151, 153, 156, 186, 202–03, 308–09

J. & W. Seligman and Co., 211, 473

J.G. White Engineering Company, 457

J.I. Case and Co., 100

J.P. Morgan & Co., House of Morgan,

Federal Reserve, 470–72, 473–75, 481–83, 487–88, 490–91, 496, 498, 509, 511–09

government enforced cartelization, 80–81, 84,

influence on Democratic Party, 33, 74–75, 199–206

influence on Republican Party, 181–82

influence on Roosevelt, 33, 35, 207, 212–14, 218–34

mergers, 93, 98, 100, 107, 468

World War I, 234, 363, 365, 381, 397, 399–400, 402, 420, 484–85, 488–89

See Bacon, Robert; Davison, Henry P.; Lamont, Thomas W.; Morawetz, Victor; Morgan, J.P.; Morgan, J.P., Jr.; Morrow, Dwight; Perkins, George W.; Root, Elihu; Stetson, Francis L.; Straight, Willard D.

Japan, 206, 408

Jay Cooke & Co., 45–47, 93

Jekyll Island Club, 474

Jewish Socialist United Cloth Hat and Cap Makers Union, 352

Jews, 189–90, 349–50, 352, 355

Johns Hopkins, 336, 338–39, 430, 432, 443

Joint Executive Committee, 62–66, 76

Joint Traffic Association, 78

Journal of Commerce, 240

Kansas City, Fort Scott, and Gulf Railroad, 42

Kennecott Mines, 366

Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, 112

Kern-McGillicuddy Bill, 292

Kernan Board, 365

Keynesian, 177, 529

Kingdom of God, 16, 31–32, 117, 297, 328–29, 334–38, 340, 398, 401, 403–04, 421

Kirby Lumber Company, 254

Ku Klux Klan, 307

Knights of Labor, 152, 277, 326, 336

Know-Nothings, 136, 146, 151, 190, 303–04, 331, 334

Kuhn, Loeb & Co., 176, 223, 226, 283, 294, 349, 356, 470, 472, 474–75, 483, 488, 503, 511–12, 531

Labor Advisory Board, 352

Labor laws, 208, 216, 279–84, 291–94, 324, 333, 339, 345, 349–50, 352–53, 403, 413, 442, 517–19, 535

See Child labor laws; Workmen’s compensation laws

Laissez-faire, 15–16, 19, 22, 25–27, 36–40, 42, 48, 73, 75, 109, 178, 210–12, 293, 334, 350, 383, 386, 390, 398, 403–14, 427, 429–31, 464–66, 479, 512–15, 518, 523, 525, 538

See Democratic Party; Libertarianism; Republican Party

Lazard Frères, 509

League for the Preservation of Citizen’s Rights, 139–40

League of Independent Women Voters, 312

League of Nations, 418, 447, 492–93, 500

League of Women Voters, 307

Lee, Higginson and Co., 203, 225

Leeds and Northrup, 358

Lehman Brothers, 356

Lever Food and Fuel Control Act, 376, 404–406

Libertarianism, 17–18, 20, 40, 110, 112–13, 115, 118

Liberty versus Power, 19–20, 25, 31

Liquor Dealers’ Association, 204

Liturgicals

Anglican, 117–18, 121, 132, 342

Calvinist, 118, 129–30, 132, 186, 296–98, 327–29, 331

Catholic, 31, 38, 40, 115–16, 118, 121–24, 126–27, 130–31, 136–38, 142–46, 151, 153–54, 156, 159–60, 166, 174–75, 177–78, 180, 186–87, 189, 221, 297–315, 320, 323, 328, 330, 332, 398, 400–01, 405–06, 411, 441

Lutheran, 31, 40, 115–18, 124, 130, 136–44, 149, 166, 168, 174, 176, 180, 186, 297–300, 320, 331–32, 398, 401, 406, 441

Locofocos, 113

London School of Economics, 348

Loyal Temperance Legion, 150

Loyal Women of American Liberty, 312

Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 62

M.M. Warburg & Co., 472

Mann-Elkins Act, 86

Marcus Samuel & Co., 232

Martin & Co., 490

Maternity Center Administration, 353

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 458

Massachusetts Railroad Commission, 68–69

Maxwell’s Talisman, 262–63

McCormick Harvester, 100

McIntyre Iron Association, 210

McKinley Tariff, 101–02, 139–40, 142, 180, 229

McNary-Watres Act, 534

Meat Inspection Act, 235, 241

Meatpackers, 21, 235–41

Medical regulation, 250, 295, 399

Mellon Institute, 457

Mercantilism, 19, 236, 242–43, 246, 318, 361–62, 519–20

Merchants Association of New York, 290

Mergers, 26, 31, 93, 94, 107, 180, 210, 275, 286–89, 427, 468, 511

Metal Polishers Union, 279

Metal Workers Union, 278

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., 281, 354

Mexico, 205, 207, 415, 490

Miami Copper Co., 364

Milbank Fund, 349, 355

Minimum wage, 292, 294, 339, 346, 352, 413, 442

Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Co., 281

Minnesota and Northwestern Railroad, 79

Minnesota Employers’ Association, 281–82

Moline Plow Co., 384–85, 514

Money

hard, gold standard, 31, 110–13, 119, 123, 136, 141, 148–49, 163, 166–67, 180–82, 185, 199–200, 205, 331, 465, 489, 491, 493, 508, 528–29

soft, bimetallism, credit expansion, greenbacks, silver, 31, 111, 119, 123, 137–39, 141, 146, 148–49, 166–67, 169, 171, 176–77, 181–85, 187–88, 191, 199–200, 263, 331, 464, 466, 478–81, 485, 489, 491–92, 495, 496, 499–501, 506, 507, 510, 512, 528

See Banks; Federal Reserve Act, System

Morgan, Grenfell & Co., 487, 490

Morrill Tariff, 101

Morton Trust Co., 181

Mugwump, 123–24

Mueller v. Oregon, 350

Musicians Protective Association, 278

Mussolini’s Corporate State, 38, 387, 427, 536–38

Mutual Life Insurance Co., 207, 222

National Academy of Sciences, 453–54, 456

National American Woman Suffrage Association, 157, 311, 408–09

National Association of Box Manufacturers, 255

National Association of Manufacturers, 82, 250, 261, 263, 267, 278–79, 281, 290, 358, 392

National Association of Owners of Railroad Securities, 395

National Association of Railway and Utilities Commissions, 380

National Bank of Commerce, 222

National Banking Acts, 46, 166, 183, 465

National Board of Historical Service, 435

National Board of Trade, 246–47, 249, 261, 263, 266, 476

National Biscuit Company, 104–05

National Bureau of Economic Research, 443–44, 447

National Business League, 261, 263, 267

National Citizen’s League for the Creation of a Sound Banking System, 476–77

National City Bank of New York, 201–12, 284, 469–70, 474, 528

National Civic Federation, 16, 26–27, 31–32, 35, 273–94, 339, 440–41, 468, 473–74

National Coffee Council, 521

National Conference of Social Work, 343, 419

National Conservation Association, 260

National Conservation Congress, 261

National Consumers League, 345–47, 350, 352–53, 360

National Credit Corporation, 531

National Electric Light Association, 284–85

National Electrical Manufacturers Association, 536

National Forestry Committee, 253

National Geographic Society, 262

National Grange, 248–49

National Industrial Conference Board, 524, 537

National Irrigation Association, 263, 267

National Irrigation Congress, 262–63

National League for Woman’s Service, 411

National Livestock Association, 240, 256, 261

National Lumber Manufacturers’ Association, 255, 261

National Metal Trades Association, 358

National Monetary Commission, 471, 474–75

National Pure Food and Drug Congress, 249

National Recovery Administration, 353–54, 357, 383–85, 387, 538

National Retail Grocers’ Association, 249

National Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association, 249

National Research Council, 453–61

National Rivers and Harbors Congress, 269–70

National Security League, 433, 436

National Slack Cooperage Manufacturers’ Association, 255

National War Labor Board, 413

National Wholesale Druggists’ Association, 249

National Women’s League, 312

National Temperance Society, 152, 309

Naval Consulting Board, 364

Neighborhood Guild, 344

New Deal, 34, 234, 270, 325, 350–54, 388, 396, 426, 513, 525, 528, 531, 534, 537

See Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Business Advisory Committee; Civilian Conservation Corps; Committee for Industrial Organization; Federal Emergency Relief Administration; National Recovery Administration; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; Social Security System; Tennessee Valley Authority

New Freedom, 27, 241

New Haven Railroad, 225–226, 488

New Nationalism, 21, 235, 420

New Republic, 387, 420–28, 514

New York Bureau of Municipal Research, 443–44

New York Central Railroad, 50, 54, 61–65, 68, 70, 75, 78, 83, 200, 207, 381, 482

New York City Board of Social Welfare, 353

New York Clearing House, 467–68

New York Consumers League, 345–46, 350

New York Evening Post, 453

New York Financier, 105

New York Life Insurance Company, 181

New York Metal Trades Association, 278

New York Post, 448

New York Railroad Commission, 75

New York Society of Ethical Culture, 350

New York State Committee on the Stabilization of Industry, 354

New York Stock Exchange, 92, 532

New York Tribune, 181

New York Times, 318, 364, 390, 402

New York Tuberculosis Association, 355

New York Women’s Trade Union League, 347

New York World, 422, 427

Newport News Shipbuilding Co., 367

Norris-LaGuardia Act, 538

North American Company, 223

Northern Pacific Railroad, 42, 46–49, 223

Northern Securities, 222–24, 227

Nurses’ Settlement, 349

Oberlin College, 158, 311, 330, 334, 339, 432, 456

Old Colony Trust Co., 223

Oliver Farm Equipment Co., 100

Open Market Investment Committee, 496, 506

Order of Good Templars, 145, 147

Order of United American Mechanics, 153

Otis Elevator, 281

Pacific Mail Steamship line, 60

Pacific Railway Acts, 47

Paddock Bill, 247–49

Panic

of 1873, 48, 74

of 1893, Depression of 1893–94, 31, 163–66, 172, 174, 263

of 1907, 287, 470–71, 484, 511

Depression of 1920–21, 495, 514–16, 519, 527

of 1929, Great Depression, 17, 20, 234, 433–44, 439, 451, 480, 513, 515, 525–38

Party System

first, 110–11

second, 110, 296

third, 30–32, 109, 115–97, 296–306

fourth, 32–33, 115, 178, 191–97, 296, 306–08

fifth, 296

See Ethnoreligious politics; Election; Politics

Patriotic Order Sons of America, 153

Payne-Aldrich Tariff, 101

Pendleton Act, 204

Pennsylvania Railroad, 50, 61–63, 69–70, 72, 74, 78, 81, 83, 346

People’s Bank of Charleston, 365

People’s Party, 305

Petroleum Producer’s Union, 70

Phelps Dodge mining, 366, 458

Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, 70, 164

Pietists, Yankee, 31, 40, 115–48, 221, 234, 242, 251–52, 261, 285, 296–309, 311–13, 320, 352, 456

Amillennial, 297, 401

Baptist, 129–30, 136, 138, 140, 174, 183, 208, 304, 356, 360, 414–15

Methodist, 117–18, 126–27, 130, 136, 138, 145, 147, 160, 172–75, 210, 300–01, 311–12, 318, 355, 402

Postmillennial, 37, 40, 117, 123–24, 274, 296–99, 316–18, 327–30, 356, 400–408, 419, 421, 430–32, 438–39

Premillennial, 297, 356, 419

Presbyterian, 129–30, 132, 136, 152–53, 160, 174, 311, 328–29, 339

Sectarian, 126, 130

Southern, 128–29, 136, 138, 140, 179, 183, 186–87, 296–97, 328, 331

Unitarian, 329

See Kingdom of God; Social Gospel

Pittsburgh Coal Co., 277

Playground and Recreation Association, 418

Plumber and Sanitary Engineer, 246

Political Economy Club, 431

Polish, 122–23, 130, 132, 136, 159, 166, 175, 176, 349, 352

Politics

Midwest, 31–32, 114–97

Illinois, 123, 131, 135, 144–45, 170, 176, 179, 185, 193

Indiana, 131, 135, 141

Iowa, 131, 135, 145–49, 179

Michigan, 122, 127–28, 131, 135–36, 144–45, 165, 169–70, 172–73, 179, 183

Ohio, 122, 129, 131, 135–41, 149, 165, 169, 174, 179

Wisconsin, 122, 125–27, 135–38, 141–44, 165, 168, 170, 175, 179, 183, 185, 193

North, 31–32, 114, 120, 152, 155, 159, 170–71, 177, 179, 184–86, 191–93, 103–05, 207–09, 312

South, 115, 120, 163, 169–70, 183–85, 187, 191–84

Voter participation, 110, 164, 193–95, 296

West, 152, 158–63, 169–70, 182–83, 187, 191–93, 302–08, 312–13

See Election; Ethnoreligious politics; Party System

Pollak Foundation for Economic Research, 517

Populist Party, 139, 146, 150, 165–67, 169, 172, 177, 214, 238, 303, 310, 313

Positivism, 429

Power Elite Analysis, 23–24, 33

President’s Conference on Unemployment, 515–16

Price Fixing Committee, 371, 389

Princeton University, 357

Progressive Era, 15–16, 20–22, 24–29, 107, 109, 165, 190, 196–97, 202, 206–07, 228, 234, 242, 253, 273, 275, 295, 318–19, 334, 386, 464, 468–69, 511

summary of, 30–40

Progressive Party, 33, 156, 306, 310, 317–18, 350–51, 402, 408, 413

Prohibition, 26, 28, 31, 38, 40, 110, 116–21, 127, 131–33, 136–51, 156–62, 177–78, 183, 186–88, 190, 204–05, 297–98, 310–11, 313–14, 316, 328, 330, 332–33, 335, 337, 341, 400–09, 414–19, 430–31, 439, 451

Prohibition Party, 121–22, 136, 138–44, 143, 145–46, 150, 153–54, 156, 165, 169, 172, 179, 187, 310, 339, 350, 402, 408

Proprietary Association of America, 249

Prostitution laws, 39, 157, 310, 333, 414–19

Public Charities in New York, 355

Public Choice Analysis, 24

Public Education Society of San Francisco, 307

Public Lands Commission, 259, 266, 268

Public utility regulation, 284–88, 339

Public schools, 26, 38, 116–21, 137–49, 151, 159, 177, 295, 299–308, 319–20, 328–30, 333, 414–15, 441

Pullman Company, 482

Pure Food and Drug Act, 32, 241, 246, 250–51

R.H. Macy’s, 276, 470

Radio Act, 523

Railroad Administration, 34, 88–90, 365, 379–82, 393–96, 426

See Railroad War Board

Railroad Executive’s Advisory Committee, 88–89

Railroad Labor Board, 396

Railroad War Board, 379–80

Railroads

acts, 26, 34, 47, 69, 73–90, 211, 214–15, 219–20, 226, 291, 351, 380–82, 358, 382, 395–96, 438, 464, 468–69, 511, 519

bills, 69–77, 82, 86, 395–96

conservation, 209, 254, 259, 262, 266–67

financing, 56, 92–93, 341

laissez faire, 73, 75–76, 87, 89

mergers, 93

pools, 59–66, 70–71, 73–74, 79–81, 86, 107, 468–69

pricing, 49–56, 64, 65, 212, 215, 226, 269

regulation, 32, 49, 67–90, 212, 215–27, 223, 276, 287, 291, 314

subsidies, 41–49, 67, 262, 331, 531

unions, 276, 279–80, 325, 380–81, 519, 521

World War I, see Railroad Administration

Railroad Gazette, 81

Railroad Retirement Act, 358

Railroad Retirement Board, 358

Railway Age Gazette, 90

Railway Business Association, 89, 395

Railway and Engineering Review, 83–84

Railway Labor Act, 351, 519

Railway Review, 76

Railway World, 69, 85–86, 89

Raines Law, 204–05

Reagan Bill, 70–71, 73–74

Real Estate Board, 307

Reclamation Act, 263–66

Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 354, 387, 528, 531

Red Cross, 355, 413

Regulation, Theories of, 22

Republic Iron and Steel, 373–74

Republican Party

Civil War and Reconstruction era, 42, 48, 110, 113–15, 166, 345

ethnoreligious, 30–32, 40, 115–97, 296, 299, 303–314, 329, 331, 334, 339, 341, 401, 414

interventionist, 123, 138–41, 143, 148–51, 154–55, 166–67, 178, 181, 199–200, 203, 228, 239, 244, 260, 309, 331, 345, 465

liberal, 123–24

moderation, 32, 137–38, 141, 148, 149–50, 166, 176, 178, 182, 184, 186, 189

radical, 123–24, 345

railroads, 41–49, 89

Silver Republicans, 182

See Roosevelt, Theodore; McKinley, William; Taft, William H.; Hoover, Herbert

Review of Reviews, 274, 276

Rice Bill, 71

Richmond Trust & Safe Deposit Co., 482

Rockefeller Foundation, 350, 356, 418, 442, 442, 460–61

Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, 250, 442, 460

Rockefeller, Andrews, and Flagler, 62, 94

Rockford Female Seminary, 341, 343, 349

Round Table, 275

Royal Dutch Co., 231–32

Royal Dutch Shell, 233

Russell Sage Foundation, 418

Sacramento Valley Railroad, 44

Sage Foundation Fund, 281

San Bernardino National Forest, 268

San Francisco Vigilance Movement, 304–05

Saturday Evening Post, 238

Scandinavian, 120, 126, 130, 136, 138–39, 143–44, 148, 159, 172, 175, 193, 296–99, 309, 401

Securities and Exchange Commission, 217–18, 532

Seaboard Differential Agreement, 60

Seaboard Airline Railway, 381, 482

Sears Roebuck, 349, 365

Segregation and disenfranchisement of blacks, 40, 194, 315–16

Selective Service Act, 405, 414

Settlements, 418–20

See Christodora House; College Settlement Association; Greenwich House; Henry Street; Hull House; Neighborhood Guild; Nurses’ Settlement; Toynbee Hall; University Settlement

Senators, Direct election of, 197

Shell Transport and Trading Co., 232

Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act, 343–44, 346

Sherman Antitrust, 32, 105, 210, 216, 221, 223, 227–29, 288–90, 369, 392, 394, 522

Sherman Bill, 282

Sherman Silver Purchase Act, 166

Shippers, 51–54, 68, 74, 77, 81, 86–88, 380–82, 395–96, 465

Smoot-Hawley Tariff, 538

Social Democratic League, 424

Social Gospel, 316–17, 334, 347, 360, 402–03, 432

Social Security Act, System, 284, 352, 356–60

Social Security Board, 352

Socialism, Marxism, 27, 36–37, 274, 277–78, 288, 294, 325–27, 334, 336, 341, 344–46, 348, 352–53, 355, 360, 363, 383, 386, 398, 420, 422–24, 427, 430, 432, 436, 443, 518

See Bismarckian socialism

Socialist Party, 424

Society of American Foresters, 254

Society of Christian Socialists, 336

Society of the Elect, 275

Sons of Temperance, 145

Sound Currency Committee, 185

South Improvement Company, 61–62, 95, 98

Southern Lumber Manufacturers Association, 261

Southern Pacific Railroad, 42, 47–48, 74, 225

Southern Railroad, 380

Southern Railway and Steamship Association, 63

Spanish American War, 27, 206–207, 433

Square Deal, 235, 402

St. Paul & Pacific Railroad, 47

Standard Oil, Rockefeller ambit, 33–34, 94–98, 200, 210, 218–19, 226–27, 230–31, 234, 274, 277, 284, 346, 356, 358, 410, 514, 528

rebates, 52, 54, 60, 70–71, 95, 98, 227

See McKinley, William; Rockefeller, John D.

Stanford University, 302

State Grange of Virginia, 249

Stock watering, 216–17

Students’ Christian Association, 337–38, 421

Sugar Equalization Board, 378

Sunday blue laws, 38, 40, 111, 111–21, 127, 137, 144, 146–47, 177–78, 298, 314, 328, 330

Survey, 283, 351, 418

Survey of Current Business, 448

Sweatshops, 208, 216, 292–93, 353, 424, 518

Swift & Co., 241

Swope Plan, 384–85, 536–38

Synod

Missouri, 124–25, 133, 142–43

Norwegian, 126, 144, 175

Presbyterian, 152

Wisconsin, 124–26, 142, 166

Tariffs, 31, 98, 101–03, 111, 119, 123, 139–40, 142, 154, 166–67, 180, 183–84, 189, 199–200, 203, 228–29, 243–45, 250, 256, 330–31, 339, 345, 449, 522, 535, 538

Taxes, 38, 46, 49, 110–11, 113, 119, 141, 167–68, 194, 216, 247, 258, 262, 264–66, 268–69, 272, 280, 286, 358–59, 465–66, 471, 485

Tenement housing, 208–09, 346

Tennessee Valley Authority, 387

Texas and Pacific Railroad, 70–71

Texas Company, 97

Texas Social Hygiene Association, 418

The American Review of Reviews, 276, 431

The Gospel of the Kingdom, 403–04

The Independent, 404

The Inquiry, 425, 446

The Institute of Economic Research, 442

The Jungle, 235, 238

The Nation’s Business, 263

Theatrical Managers, 278

Tight Barrel Stave Manufacturers’ Association, 255

Timber and Stone Act, 266

Timber Conservation Board, 534

Thymology, 23–24

Toynbee Hall, 342, 354

Trade associations, 21, 284, 371, 385, 393, 445, 448–49, 459, 504, 516, 519–23, 535–36

Transportation Act, 396

Trunk Line Association, 63, 66

Twentieth Century Fund, 354

U.S. Brewers’ Association, 281

U.S. Children’s Bureau, 343, 345, 346, 349

U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 458

U.S. Division of Forestry, 210, 254

U.S. Division of Grazing, 259

U.S. Geological Survey, 262–63, 270

U.S. Industrial Commission, 211, 214–17

U.S. Office of Education, 307

U.S. Rubber Co., 521

U.S. Silica Co., 393

U.S. Steel, 26, 33–34, 81, 98–100, 103–07, 202, 214, 218, 220, 222, 224, 227, 234, 278, 280, 289, 294, 373–74, 391, 410, 458–59, 468, 482, 489, 514, 519, 527

U.S. Supreme Court, 78–81, 86–87, 260, 279

U.S. Weather Bureau, 271

Underwood Tariff, 167

Unemployment insurance, 292, 294, 324, 339, 354, 357, 360, 442, 491, 498, 514, 522, 525

Union Pacific Railroad, 42–46, 59–61, 68, 74, 225, 227, 354, 367

Union Labor Party, 306

Union Trust Co., 371

Unions, 30, 38, 152, 154, 208, 216, 273, 277–81, 289–92, 325–26, 336, 339–40, 347, 352, 357–58, 362, 383, 388, 402–03, 431, 442, 468, 491, 514–15, 517, 519, 521, 525, 537–38

See Railroads/Unions

United Mine Workers, 277–78, 284

United States Brewers Association, 406

United States Housing Corp., 388

United States Shipping Board, 388, 445

United States Trust Co., 201–02, 469

United Verde Copper, 266

University Club of New York, 457

University of Berlin, 243, 344, 430, 442, 456

University of California Berkeley, 358, 482

University of Chicago, 152, 275, 348, 353, 439, 447, 454–57

University of Michigan, 344, 421, 442

University of Pennsylvania, 215

University of Wisconsin, 284, 302, 326, 336–38, 356, 360, 430–31, 434, 436, 443–44

See Wisconsin Idea

University Settlement, 353

United Order of Deputies, 153

Urban Reform, 26, 28, 35, 208–09, 275, 285, 295, 318–19, 323, 340–50, 353, 431, 440–41, 443

Versailles Treaty, 427–28, 445–46

Veteran’s Pensions, 153, 324

Volker Fund, 17–18, 20

Volstead Act, 407

Wabash Railroad, 76, 482

Wadsworth Bill, 240

Wagner Act, 519

Wall Street, 93, 181, 183–84, 199–200, 205, 222, 279, 349, 365, 453, 465–66, 472, 483–84, 490, 496, 511

Wall Street Journal, 84–85, 220

War Industries Board, 366–74, 382, 386, 388–90, 426, 445

See Commodity Committees; Conservation Division; Price Fixing Committee

War Finance Corporation, 387, 524, 531

War of 1812, 110–11, 151

War Prohibition Act, 407

War Trade Board, 445–47

Warner and Swasey Co., 366

Weeks Act, 254

Welfare Council of New York City, 354

Wellesley College, 344, 348

West Shore Railroad, 65

West Virginia Central and Pittsburgh Railroad, 80

Western Executive Committee, 63

Western Maryland Railroad, 381

Westinghouse Acceptance Bank, 504

Westinghouse Electric Company, 93, 457

Weyerhaeuser Lumber Company, 254

Whigs, 42, 110–11, 113, 146, 151, 296, 298, 303–04, 331, 334, 465–66

White House Conferences, 508, 526

William Deering and Company, 100

Wisconsin Dairymen’s Association, 143

Wisconsin Idea, 287, 340, 431

See University of Wisconsin

Wisconsin Industrial Commission, 357–58

Wisconsin Loyalty Legion, 434–35

Wisconsin Railroad Commission, 287–88

Wisconsin Telephone Company, 223

Wilson-Gorman Tariff, 167

Woman’s Committee, 409–13, 418

Women’s Christian Temperance Union, 121, 145, 147, 150, 157, 187, 319–12, 333, 408

Women’s Prayer Crusade, 137

Women’s Suffrage, 28, 31, 156–62, 190, 309–14, 320, 332–33, 406–14

Women’s Trade Union League, 344–48, 351, 413

Woodward Iron Co., 482

Works Progress Administration, 355

Workmen’s compensation laws, 32, 279–84, 292

World League Against Alcoholism, 407

World War I

financing, 484–91, 495, 512

historical, 20, 100, 167, 234, 277, 343, 356

immigration, 190

prohibition, 131, 190, 400–409, 414–19

war collectivism, 22, 26–27, 33, 35, 38, 167, 325–26, 361–461, 515, 524–25

See American Expeditionary Force; Committee on Public Information; Council of National Defense; Emergency Fleet Corporation; Food Administration; Fuel Administration; Industrial Board Railroad Administration; United States Housing Corp.; United States Shipping Board; War Finance Corporation; War Industries Board; War Trade Board; Women’s suffrage

World War II, 18, 34, 38, 234, 323, 396, 464

Yale University, 211, 254, 438, 444, 447, 450

Young Men’s Christian Association, 150, 428