Citations:beef trust

In reference to the beef industry
 * Citations

"The 'Beef Trust' and the United States Government," by Francis Amasa Walker, The Economic Journal, Vol. 16, No. 64, December 1906, pps. 491–514 "Swift & Co. v. United States: The Beef Trust and the Stream of Commerce Doctrine," by David Gordon, PhD (and later, JD), American Journal of Legal History, Vol. 28, No. 3, July 1984, pg. 244
 * (see Swift & Co. v. United States in wikipedia)

In reference to various types of industry trusts
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"Trusts," by Frederic Jesup Stimson, Harvard Law Review, Vol. 1, No. 3, October 15, 1887, pps. 132–143; (unique identifier); ISSN 0017-811X (law review)

In reference to burlesque shows
 * Notes

Coates and Grundy branded the phrase "Watermelon Trust;" Sherman Coates (1872–1912), a pioneer of acro dancing, was was part of a vaudevillian burlesque comedy duo with James Grundy (1876–1911); Coates was the straight man; those two, with their wives, Lulu Coates and Sue Grundy (1887–1934), and Tennie Russell (who replaced Gertine Miller) as Sam Patterson's (1881–1955) "Watermelon Trust" on tours, coast-to-coast; as part of the Harry Bryant Extravaganza Burlesque Company. Harry C. Bryant was formerly with Sefton & Watson, composed of Harry Sefton and Billy "Beef Trust" Watson, owned by Mr. Hill; in 1914, Lulu Coates and Archie Leon Ware (1892–1974), Wilfred Blanks (born 1900), Harry Irons (1898–1943), Clifford James Carter (1893–1942) formed a singing-dance troupe, the "Crackerjacks;" Lulu Coates was director until her retirement in 1922, but the Crackerjacks flourished until about 1952; this act pioneered a type of dance chronicled as acro dance


 * Citations

"Omaha Remembers Billy Watson," Omaha World-Herald, February 11, 1945, pg. 58 (retrieved via GenealogyBank.com)