Archive for John E. Swearigen
Regulation of American Business
Mr. Swearingen is President of the Standard Oil Company of Indiana. This article is from an address before the Rotary Club of Los Angeles, February 28, 1962. I propose to tell what amounts to a modern-day ghost story. The specters in question are the manifold and proliferating regulatory agencies of the federal government, whose existence [...]
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For Equality; Against Privilege
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