November 22, 2016. First Time Home Buyers searching for loan assistance can now take advantage of FHA Government Loans First Time Home Buyer Programs that can require as little as 3 % down. FHA Refinance Programs (now at the lowest rates in 22 years)
SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890 (15 U.S.C.A. Â§Â§ 1 et seq.), the first and most significant of the U.S. antitrust laws, was signed into law by President benjamin harrison and is named after its primary supporter, Ohio Senator john sherman.HERMAN ANTITRUST ACT was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Benjamin Harrison on 2 July 1890. Introduced and vigorously promoted by Senator John Sherman (RâOhio), the law was designed to discourage trusts, broadly understood as large industrial combinations that curtail competition.
Herbert Hovenkamp. In 1890 public hostility toward the monopoly actions of large corporations was at a feverish pitch. The Sherman Antitrust Act (26 Stat 209) was designed to limit monopolistic and other anticompetitive practices by large American corporations such as Standard Oil Company. The act, immensely popular when it was passed, was named after Senator John Sherman of Ohio, one of the senators who originally proposed such a law.