trustbuster
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Nominated by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, Landis was a Republican trustbuster in Roosevelt’s mold.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 9, 2022
Europe has led the charge with antitrust investigations and Margrethe Vestager, the region’s top trustbuster, recently vowed to take a harder line on the companies.
From New York Times ● Jul. 29, 2020
Teddy Roosevelt, the trustbuster himself, was also a eugenicist, an inconvenient fact left out by Wu.
From Salon ● Jan. 8, 2019
Some even hoped he might be a Teddy Roosevelt–style trustbuster.
From Slate ● Jan. 13, 2017
On the other side, one top-ranking federal trustbuster, not mentioning IBM by name, publicly complained about being "drowned in a sea of paper."
From Time Magazine Archive
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