There were calls for government action to break up the trusts, but there was also a fascination with the men who stood astride the world of finance, accumulating fortunes beyond most readers' imagining.
But they did not take issue with their bigness itself, and they opposed breaking up the trusts.
Most famously, he broke up the "trusts", the powerful corporate monopolies that dominated late-19th-century America, by bringing 44 antitrust cases in seven years.Mr Bush, by contrast, thinks the current crisis stems from a few bad-apple chief executives rather than the system as a whole.
Sanders's proposal to break up the big banks invokes the old trust-busting tradition of progressivism, and it has the support of some, although not all, academics.
Ahead of Sturgeon's speech, Gordon Brown, the former prime minister, warned voters not to be tricked by the SNP, saying that they still wanted to break up the UK and couldn't be trusted with the NHS.
Sanders called for her to release the speech transcripts (as did the New York Times) demanding that the public should have a right to know the contents, especially if we are to trust she will break up the big banks.
Create major anti-trust legislation to break up the monopolies - High Streets need a big 10 of grocery retailers, not a big four.
He also is in favor of the idea of not allowing banks to be too big to fail and thinks we should look at using the anti-trust laws to break up the ones that can take the entire economy down with them if they fail.
" None of these guys have be trusted on tuition fees … break up the old boys' club".
After 10 days, break up the mixture.
