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Omaha Steve

(99,590 posts) Thu Jan 28, 2016, 05:33 PM Jan 2016

1-26-16 TR Getting Money out of Politics in 2:00

http://laborhistoryin2.podbean.com/e/january-26-2016-tr-getting-money-out-of-politics/

January 26, 2016
On this day in Labor History the year was 1907. That was the day that President Theodore Roosevelt signed into law an effort to get corporate money out of national politics. The law was called the Tillman Act. The act was named after its sponsor, Senator Benjamin Tillman of South Carolina.

2:00 minute audio at link.

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