Question: Joseph Moore Dixon was unsuccessful as governor and recourses were mobilized to defeat reform during his term by an American company that was one of the largest what of the early 20th century? 

Context articles: Reform Democrat
Erwin Mill
Rumba
History of ecology
Rockdale (Fallston, Maryland)
Grace Street Commercial Historic District
Timeline of the Gwangmu Reform
Anaconda Copper
Joseph M. Dixon
Zhu Wenxiong

Reform Democrats in the United States are members of the Democratic Party who are opposed to the Democratic political machines of their respective cities, counties, or states or to analogous machine politics at a national level.
 The term is usually used in contrast with machine-affiliated Regular Democrats.
 Reform Democrats are generally associated with the good government traditions that arose out of the progressive movement of the early 20th century, and are usually, but not always, on the left wing of the Democratic Party.
 The lines between anti-machine Reform Democrats and pro-machine Regular Democrats are not always clear: often, once reformers achieve office they often take advantage of patronage to establish a machine in their own right.
 An example of this is the rise of the "Reform machine" of Jim Brennan in the wake of its triumph over the more traditional machine of Meade Esposito in Brooklyn, New York in the 1980s.
Erwin Mill was a textile mill in Durham, North Carolina that operated between the years of 1893 and 1986.
 After seeing the success of other cotton mills in the Northeast and locally in Durham, entrepreneur Benjamin N. Duke incorporated the mill in 1892 and recruited William H. Erwin to manage the enterprise.
 The mill’s success in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was the result of Erwin’s and his successors’ exceptional management tactics, even when the factory hit obstacles such as the Great Depression and the unionization of its workers.
 The mill grew quickly in the late 19th century and early 20th century, became one of North Carolina’s largest cotton mills.
 It originally produced muslin pouches for tobacco, but the mill would later expand its production to other fabrics, becoming one of the largest producers of denim in the world during the early 1900s.
 Workers at the mill enjoyed some of the best working conditions and highest wages in textile factories throughout the southern United States.
 Mill employees would later sign union-friendly labor agreements that were radical to the southern textile industry in the early to mid 20th century.
 The establishment of homes, businesses and recreation areas in the mill village was a significant factor in the development of the West Durham, especially the Ninth Street business district and the Old West Durham Neighborhood.
 Erwin Mill No. 1 is on the National Register of Historic Places and the mill village of West Durham is a National Historic District.
 An apartment complex, office building and shopping center of the same name that are built on the original site also commemorate the factory.
The term rumba may refer to a variety of unrelated music styles.
 Originally, the term rumba was used as a synonym for "party" in northern Cuba, and by the late 19th century it was used to denote the complex of secular music styles known as Cuban rumba.
 Since the early 20th century the term has been used in different countries to refer to distinct styles of music and dance, most of which are only tangentially related to the original Cuban rumba, if at all.
 The vague etymological origin of the term rumba, as well as its interchangeable use with guaracha in settings such as bufo theatre, is largely responsible for such worldwide polysemy of the term.
 In addition, "rumba" was the primary marketing term for Cuban music in North America, as well as West and Central Africa, during much of the 20th century, before the rise of mambo, pachanga and salsa.
Ecology is a new science and considered as an important branch of biological science, having only become prominent during the second half of the 20th century.
 Ecological thought is derivative of established currents in philosophy, particularly from ethics and politics.
 Its history stems all the way back to the 4th century.
 One of the first ecologists whose writings survive may have been Aristotle or perhaps his student, Theophrastus, both of whom had interest in many species of animals and plants.
 Theophrastus described interrelationships between animals and their environment as early as the 4th century BC.
 Ecology developed substantially in the 18th and 19th century.
 It began with Carl Linnaeus and his work with the economy of nature.
 Soon after came Alexander von Humboldt and his work with botanical geography.
 Alfred Russel Wallace and Karl Möbius then contributed with the notion of biocoenosis.
 Eugenius Warming’s work with ecological plant geography led to the founding of ecology as a discipline.
 Charles Darwin’s work also contributed to the science of ecology, and Darwin is often attributed with progressing the discipline more than anyone else in its young history.
 Ecological thought expanded even more in the early 20th century.
 Major contributions included: Eduard Suess’ and Vladimir Vernadsky’s work with the biosphere, Arthur Tansley’s ecosystem, Charles Elton's "Animal Ecology", and Henry Cowles ecological succession.
 Ecology influenced the social sciences and humanities.
 Human ecology began in the early 20th century and it recognized humans as an ecological factor.
 Later James Lovelock advanced views on earth as a macro-organism with the Gaia hypothesis.
 Conservation stemmed from the science of ecology.
 Important figures and movements include Shelford and the ESA, National Environmental Policy act, George Perkins Marsh, Theodore Roosevelt, Stephen A. Forbes, and post-Dust Bowl conservation.
 Later in the 20th century world governments collaborated on man’s effects on the biosphere and Earth’s environment.
Rockdale, also known as The Robinson/Stirling Place, is a historic home and farm complex located at Fallston, Harford County, Maryland, United States.
 It is a farm developed from the late 18th century through the early 20th century.
 The dwelling is in three parts.
 The east room of the east wing is the earliest section dating from the 18th century.
 The largest or main portion of the dwelling dates from between 1815 and 1830.
 The north wing, a bay centered in the south façade of the second story, and a small conservatory, date from the very early 20th century.
 The main house is five bays in length, two and a half stories, of stone construction, stuccoed and scored.
 The home is surrounded by several outbuildings, trees, and other plantings, and the remains of formal gardens and garden structures developed in the early 20th century.
 It was the residence of William E. Robinson (1860-1935), an entrepreneur in the local canning industry.
The Grace Street Commercial Historic District is a national historic district located in Richmond, Virginia.
 The district encompasses 93 contributing buildings located in downtown Richmond.
 The buildings reflect the core of the city's early 20th century retail development and the remnants of a 19th-century residential neighborhood.
 The buildings are in a variety of popular 19th century and early 20th century architectural styles including Classical Revival, Mission Revival, International Style, and Colonial Revival.
 Notable buildings include the Administration and Equipment Building for the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Company (1929), Thalhimer's Department Store, Atlantic Life Building (1950-1959), Miller & Rhoads Department Store, Berry-Burk Building, former W. W. Foster Studios (1927), Bank of Virginia (1949), Investment Realty Company building (1930), W.T. Grant Store (1939), Hotel John Marshall (1927), Franklin Federal Savings and Loan building (1954), and the Tompkins House (1820).
 Located in the district and separately listed are the Loew's Theatre, Centenary United Methodist Church, Joseph P. Winston House, Central National Bank, and National Theater.
The following is a timeline of the Gwangmu Reform, which was a reforms for modernize Korea from the late 19th century to the early 20th century.
 Although many people have the notion that this period was marked with the fight for power between Heungseon Daewongun (흥선대원군, 興宣大院君 - King Gojong's father) and Queen Min (King Gojong's wife), it was rather the era of great changes relevant to modernisation after the harsh oppressive years during the "Regency" of King Gojong's father.
 This reform also was one of the most successful for modernising in a short period of time during Korean history.
 Although the reform was mostly centred on the time period after the proclamation of the Korean Empire, it includes a number of other previous events that are closely related to the reform.
Anaconda Copper Mining Company (from 1899 to 1915, known as the Amalgamated Copper Mining Company) was an American mining company.
 It was one of the largest trusts of the early 20th century.
 Founded in 1881 when Marcus Daly bought a silver mine, the company expanded rapidly based on the discovery of huge copper deposits.
 Daly built a smelter to process copper mined in Butte, Montana.
 By 1910, Anaconda had expanded its operations and bought the assets of two other Montana copper companies.
 In 1922 it bought mining operations in Mexico and Chile; the latter was the largest mine in the world and yielded two-thirds of the company's profits.
 The company added aluminum reduction to its portfolio in 1955.
Joseph Moore Dixon (July 31, 1867May 22, 1934) was a Republican politician from Montana.
 He served as a Representative, Senator, and the seventh Governor of Montana.
 A businessman and a modernizer of Quaker heritage, Dixon was a leader of the Progressive Movement in Montana and nationally.
 His term as governor, 1921–1925, was unsuccessful, as severe economic hardship limited the opportunities for action by the state government, and his great enemy the Anaconda Copper company mobilized its resources to defeat reform.
Zhu Wenxiong () was a Chinese linguist and scholar of the early 20th century.
 He is known books such as "New Jiangsu letters" ("Jiangsu xin zimu") (1906), which was an influential works in modern Chinese linguistics.
 In regarding to language reform in early 20th century China, he once said in 1906: "What I expect of my country's people is for us to be able to stand on our own in this competitive world.
 It is impossible to achieve universal education if the writing system is not easy to use, and it is impossible to attain strong unity if there is no uniform national language."