The Brown Family

General War Time Commission of the Churches http://library.columbia.edu/content/dam/libraryweb/libraries/burke/fa/uts/ldpd_5636420.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_Brothers_Harriman

"A historic case of extraterritoriality was the seizure of the railways of Nicaragua by Brown Brothers Harriman, a U.S. banking firm. Under the Knox-Castrillo Treaty of 1911 these railroads became legally part of the State of Maine, according to former president of Guatemala, Juan José Arévalo, in his book The Shark and the Sardines (Lyle Stuart, New York, 1961), pp. 210–220, though the Knox-Castrillo Treaty contains no mention of Maine or railroads."[dubious – discuss] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extraterritoriality