REVERSAL OF FORTUNE: THE ROCKEFELLERS AND THE DECLINE OF BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR PROHIBITION
Business leaders backed Prohibition until it became the law of the land, then John D. Rockefeller Sr., John D. Rockefrlle, Jr., and others reversed themselves and called for repeal. The Rockefellers supported the Anti-Saloon League and the Eighteenth Amendment, but Rockefeller, Jr., recanted his su...
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Language: | English |
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Economic & Business History Society
2006-06-01
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Series: | Essays in Economic and Business History |
Online Access: | http://ebhsoc.org/journal/index.php/ebhs/article/view/170 |