History of the Great American FortunesModern Library, 1936 - 732 páginas For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog. |
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... Legislature to take from the pockets of the citizens of New York $ 1,500,000 annually , to hand over to a railroad corporation to be used for personal profit , as they have done by the aid which the city is compelled to give to the New ...
... Legislature to take from the pockets of the citizens of New York $ 1,500,000 annually , to hand over to a railroad corporation to be used for personal profit , as they have done by the aid which the city is compelled to give to the New ...
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... Legislature within a few days of each other's grant . In those years scandal after scandal was developed in successive New Jersey legislatures ; it was no secret that the railroad magnates not only debauched the Legislature and the com ...
... Legislature within a few days of each other's grant . In those years scandal after scandal was developed in successive New Jersey legislatures ; it was no secret that the railroad magnates not only debauched the Legislature and the com ...
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... Legislature by individuals and cor- porations for coal mining and other kinds of charters and special rights had been so admittedly brazen that , in 1847 , the Legislature , with self- righteous display , was constrained to pass an ...
... Legislature by individuals and cor- porations for coal mining and other kinds of charters and special rights had been so admittedly brazen that , in 1847 , the Legislature , with self- righteous display , was constrained to pass an ...
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PREFACE TO THE 1936 EDITION | 19 |
PREFACE TO THE 1909 EDITION | 25 |
CHAPTER I | 31 |
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acres amount Astor bankers banking became bill bonds bribed bribery brought capital capitalists cent Chapter charged coal commercial Commission Congress corporations corruption defrauded directors Erie Railroad extortion fact force fortune franchises frauds fraudulent funds Gould and Fisk Government Harriman House hundred Huntington immense industrial interests Interstate Commerce Commission investigating committee issue J. P. Morgan John Jacob Astor labor land grant large number legislative Legislature loot magnates manufacturers ment merchants methods millions of dollars multimillionaire officials owners ownership Pacific Railroad Company paid passed Pennsylvania plunder political profits propertied classes Railway rich road Sage secured selling Session shares sold Southern Pacific Railroad stockholders street swindle theft tion trade transaction treasury trust Union Pacific Railroad United States Senate Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family vote wages wealth William workers York Central York Central Railroad York City