Case Files. Investigations, 1973-1976.

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Case Files. Investigations, 1973-1976.

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Pleadings, correspondence, evidence, exhibits, research notes, and newspaper clippings regarding investigations of the 3M Company and the Ashland Oil Company for allegedly illegal political campaign contributions.

0.75 cu. ft. (1 box).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 6801923

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Minnesota mining and manufacturing company

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Ashland Oil, inc.

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Minnesota. Attorney General

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These cases had their genesis in a bill of complaint filed with the United States Supreme Court by the state of Wisconsin in 1922, seeking an injunction to restrain the state of Illinois and the Sanitary District of Chicago from diverting water from Lake Michigan through the Chicago River into the Des Plaines River and ultimately the Mississippi. This linkage, completed in 1900, not only facilitated navigation between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River waterways system, but a...