Banking Interests

Nye Committee Begins Investigation of War Profiteering and Munitions Industry "Merchants of Death"

1934-04-12 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

The U.S. Senate Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, chaired by Senator Gerald Nye (R-ND), begins operations on April 12, 1934, to investigate the financial and banking interests underlying American involvement in World War I and the enormous profits reaped by industrial and …

Gerald Nye U.S. Senate J.P. Morgan Jr. Pierre du Pont munitions manufacturers +1 more war-profiteering corporate-corruption military-industrial-complex investigations world-war-i

McKinley Victory Establishes Mark Hanna's Corporate Fundraising Model

1896-11-03 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

William McKinley defeats William Jennings Bryan to win the presidency in what becomes a watershed moment in American campaign finance, powered by Republican National Committee Chairman Mark Hanna’s revolutionary systematic fundraising from corporations. The Ohio industrialist, shipping …

William McKinley Mark Hanna Standard Oil John D. Rockefeller Republican National Committee +1 more gilded-age campaign-finance corruption corporate-power electoral-politics +1 more