History of the Great American Fortunes, Volumen1C.H. Kerr, 1910 |
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... Astor Fortune - Astor's Early Career - His Methods in Business Monopoly Based on Force - The Debauching of Indians— Violation of Laws - Profit and its Results - A Long Record of Violence— Astor's Enormous Profits 85 93 CHAPTER III The ...
... Astor Fortune - Astor's Early Career - His Methods in Business Monopoly Based on Force - The Debauching of Indians— Violation of Laws - Profit and its Results - A Long Record of Violence— Astor's Enormous Profits 85 93 CHAPTER III The ...
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... Astor Becomes America's Richest Man- Astor's Towering Wealth - The Death of John Jacob Astor - The Wonder of the Age PAGE 138 CHAPTER VI The Propulsion of the Astor Fortune - William B Astor's Parsimony - The Purchase of Laws The ...
... Astor Becomes America's Richest Man- Astor's Towering Wealth - The Death of John Jacob Astor - The Wonder of the Age PAGE 138 CHAPTER VI The Propulsion of the Astor Fortune - William B Astor's Parsimony - The Purchase of Laws The ...
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... See the chapters on the Astor fortune in Part II for full details of the methods in debauching and swindling the Indians in trading operations . of the Indians of land and furs . Two strong THE RISE OF THE TRADING CLASS 53 333 PART II PAGE.
... See the chapters on the Astor fortune in Part II for full details of the methods in debauching and swindling the Indians in trading operations . of the Indians of land and furs . Two strong THE RISE OF THE TRADING CLASS 53 333 PART II PAGE.
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... Astor's land transactions , 1 passed over with a sentence the fundamental facts as to Astor's shipping activities , and entirely ignored the peculiar special privileges , worth mil- lions of dollars , that Astor , in conjunction with ...
... Astor's land transactions , 1 passed over with a sentence the fundamental facts as to Astor's shipping activities , and entirely ignored the peculiar special privileges , worth mil- lions of dollars , that Astor , in conjunction with ...
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... Astor did not have to pay to the United States for a year and a half . His tea cargoes would be sold for good four and six months ' paper , or per- haps cash ; so that for eighteen or twenty years John Jacob Astor had what was actually ...
... Astor did not have to pay to the United States for a year and a half . His tea cargoes would be sold for good four and six months ' paper , or per- haps cash ; so that for eighteen or twenty years John Jacob Astor had what was actually ...
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acres American American Fur Company amount Bank bankers became bonds bribed bribery brought capital capitalists cent Chapter charged claim coal Commission committee Congress corporations corruption defrauded directors Erie Railroad fact factory force fortune franchise fraud fraudulent funds Goelet Gould Government House hundred immense Indians industrial interests investigation J. P. Morgan John Jacob Astor labor land grant large number legislative Legislature magnates ment merchants methods millions of dollars Morgan multimillionaires Northern Pacific Railroad officials owners ownership Pacific Railroad paid passed plunder political possession profits propertied classes public lands Pullman Company Railroad Company Railway real estate rich Sage secured Session shares ships sold steamship stockholders street Supreme Court swindling timber tion trade transaction Trust Union Pacific Railroad United States Senate Vanderbilt Vanderbilt family vast wages wealth William workers York Central York Central Railroad York City
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Página 343 - They have power, more power — that is, more opportunity of making their personal will prevail — than perhaps any one in political life, except the President and the Speaker, who after all hold theirs only for four years and two years, while the railroad monarch may keep his for life.
Página 130 - That hereditary transmission of wealth, on the one hand, and poverty on the other, has brought down to the present generation all the evils of the feudal system — -and that this, in our opinion, is the prime source of all our calamities.
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Página 250 - We realize that, while we have political independence, our financial and industrial independence is yet to be attained, by restoring to our country the Constitutional control and exercise of the functions necessary to a people's government, which functions have been basely surrendered by our public servants to corporate monopolies. The influence of European money changers has been more potent in shaping legislation than the voice of the American people.
Página 633 - The New Haven system has more than 300 subsidiary corporations, in a web of entangling alliances with each other, many of which were seemingly planned, created, and manipulated by lawyers expressly retained for the purpose of concealment or deception.
Página 230 - Sparks, dramatically brought the issue to the front by revealing with overwhelming evidence that "the public domain was being made the prey of unscrupulous speculation and the worst forms of land monopoly through systematic frauds carried on and consummated under the public land laws.