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President Taft continued policies Roosevelt started. Most important the anti-trust policies. He had 90 Anti-trust suits.
Theodore Roosevelt filed suits against 44 trusts during his 7 1/2 years as president
Women started wearing business suits as early as the 1930s. These early suits were skirt suits not pants suits that can be found today.
Sherman Antitrust Act.
President Taft continued policies Roosevelt started. Most important the anti-trust policies. He had 90 Anti-trust suits. He passes the Mann-Elkins Act, that regulated the telephone and telegram companies. He established the Department of Labor and A Children's Bureau.
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The relationship between William Taft and trusts is quite simple. When Teddy Roosevelt was President, he was known as a trust buster. He went after the type of big business trusts that were formed when smaller companies give their stock to people on the board of trustees of a larger company. Roosevelt prosecuted many anti-trust suits. However when Taft became president he "busted" even more trusts than Roosevelt but he was never acknowledged for it. You can read about it in more detail at the link provided belw.
Zenga suits are sold year round in a boutique in New York. They started being sold in the US in 1938. Zenga suits are handmade Italian suits and can be found at 663 Fifth Ave at W 52nd street. They range about $1130.
Suits, ties, dress shoes, skeletons
Andrew Johnson was a professional tailor before he got in politics and he made a few suits for friends and maybe himself afterwards.
The four suits in a standard deck of playing cards is thought to have originated in the Middle East. The suits started out as being coins, cups, swords and sticks. These suits evolved into today's playing card suits with the coins now being diamonds; the cups, which stood for "love", turning into hearts; the spades replaced the swords, and the sticks are now clubs.