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RMS Titanic sank in 1912, a US presidential election yr, and in the very first days of the fantastic House of Commons question on Home Rule for Ireland. The Marconi companies were heroes to the press and the general public, who credited them with keeping the lives which were saved. JP Morgan, who owned the transport trust that handled Titanic's White Superstar Line, was a significant political target for the trust-busters. And participants of the English Cabinet, like the Attorney-General who was simply to point (and nobble) the Crown's circumstance in the Titanic enquiry, were up to their necks in inside trading in Marconi stocks. This is actually the tale of how, in Titanic's reduction, 1500 souls were sacrificed to the "settled research" and "scientific consensus" of marine executive. Additionally it is the storyplot of the way the US and United kingdom reduction enquiries were designed by party politics, corrupted by corrupt politicians and the Marconi Scandal, tainted by the politics of Irish Home Rule, and - finally - salvaged by Oliver Wendell Holmes and the US Supreme Courtroom, and by Lord Mersey's judgement in the Board of Trade Enquiry and the subsequent International Convention for the Safeness of Life at Sea. Titanic sank a century in the past; but she sails on, the ghost dispatch of modern rules and politics, shaping the world in ways we don't notice.
