1910s

1911 – U.S. Supreme Court orders breakup of Standard Oil Co.

1911 – John Fitch, writing in American magazine, attacks the 12-hour workday prevalent in the steel industry, noting how it was making strong men old before their time.

1914 – Publicist Ivy Lee is hired by the Rockefeller family to change public opinion about killings related to strikes at its Colorado mining operations.

1915 – New York Federal Reserve Bank begins holding weekly news conferences.

1917 – Bertie Forbes begins publishing his business magazine called Forbes. The United States enters World War I.

1919 – The Wall Street Journal starts Barron’s, a weekly business newspaper named after its current editor.