NEW YORK POST
(NY Post)
Upton Sinclair’s Expose of the Chicago Meatpacking Industry—called “Packingtown” and triggered the government investigation which confirmed almost everything that had been alleged including the mislabeling of products and the use of the meat of diseased animals. As a result, the public pressure was so great that President Theodore Roosevelt was able to institute the first American federal regulation of food.
We were in the midst of WWI.
This is the first use of the “lame duck” expression in a political context in the United States. 49 years earlier Englishman Horace Walpole had used the phrase in an economic context. See {585556}.
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