History of the Great American FortunesModern Library, 1936 - 732 páginas For contents and other editions, see Author Catalog. |
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... legislators had been so thoroughly taught by the landowners and bankers how to exchange their votes for cash that now , not only at Albany and Washington , but everywhere in the United States , both legislative and administrative ...
... legislators had been so thoroughly taught by the landowners and bankers how to exchange their votes for cash that now , not only at Albany and Washington , but everywhere in the United States , both legislative and administrative ...
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... legislative purposes . In fact , money , as an absolute requirement , could be dispensed with . For their votes , legislators ( being wily , tactful and practical men ) much pre- ferred cash , but when cash could not be fingered , they ...
... legislative purposes . In fact , money , as an absolute requirement , could be dispensed with . For their votes , legislators ( being wily , tactful and practical men ) much pre- ferred cash , but when cash could not be fingered , they ...
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... legislative bodies another perversion of governmental power for the aggrandizement of a small and hostile class , and the rapid impetus to an overshadowing plutocracy . Aware of this general feeling , legislative assemblies had to be ...
... legislative bodies another perversion of governmental power for the aggrandizement of a small and hostile class , and the rapid impetus to an overshadowing plutocracy . Aware of this general feeling , legislative assemblies had to be ...
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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