This entity was the respondent in a Supreme Court case which upheld Congress's ability to levy income taxes not in proportion to state population and was brought by Brushaber.
This entity was the respondent in a Supreme Court case which upheld Congress's ability to levy income taxes not in proportion to state population and was brought by Brushaber. This company was chaired throughout the Franklin Roosevelt administration by the man who later lost his post as governor of New York to Nelson Rockefeller, Averell Harriman. Its easternmost business was in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and it ultimately extended as far north as Portland. Still the largest firm of its kind in the U.S., this company's directors were the driving force in the Crédit Mobilier scandal, and it started its major project at Omaha while a counterpart worked from Sacramento. For 10 points, name this railroad which built westward towards Promontory Point, forming a transcontinental link with the Central Pacific.
This entity was the respondent in a Supreme Court case which upheld Congress's ability to levy income taxes not in proportion to state population and was brought by Brushaber.
the {Union Pacific} Railroad Company