History of the Great American Fortunes, Volumen1C.H. Kerr, 1910 |
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... Funds for Private Use " Reform ” As it Works Out - Vanderbilt's Chief of Staff - Repression by Starvation - The Sermonizing of the " Best Classes " - " Honesty and Industry " Analyzed— Labor's Principles Ignored CHAPTER VI · The ...
... Funds for Private Use " Reform ” As it Works Out - Vanderbilt's Chief of Staff - Repression by Starvation - The Sermonizing of the " Best Classes " - " Honesty and Industry " Analyzed— Labor's Principles Ignored CHAPTER VI · The ...
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... Funds - Rockefeller Wealth - Where the Duke Riches Came From - Duke Perpetuates His Name- " Become Wealthy Because Thrifty " -Guggenheim Solidarity - Ascent of the Mellons - Deluges of Profit- Touching Upon the Du Ponts - World War ...
... Funds - Rockefeller Wealth - Where the Duke Riches Came From - Duke Perpetuates His Name- " Become Wealthy Because Thrifty " -Guggenheim Solidarity - Ascent of the Mellons - Deluges of Profit- Touching Upon the Du Ponts - World War ...
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... funds and by the pro- visions of its charter , this bank swayed the whole money marts of the United States and could manipulate them at will . It could advance or depress prices as it chose . Many times , Girard with his fellow ...
... funds and by the pro- visions of its charter , this bank swayed the whole money marts of the United States and could manipulate them at will . It could advance or depress prices as it chose . Many times , Girard with his fellow ...
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... funds and in being extremel generous to them when they failed to pay up . From 1789 to 1823 th Government lost more than $ 250,000,000 in duties , 1 all of which sun represented what the shippers owed and did not , or could not , pay ...
... funds and in being extremel generous to them when they failed to pay up . From 1789 to 1823 th Government lost more than $ 250,000,000 in duties , 1 all of which sun represented what the shippers owed and did not , or could not , pay ...
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... funds contributed or bequeathed by traders . The newspapers were supported by the advertisements of the propertied class . The various legislative bodies were mainly , and the judicial benches wholly , recruited from the ranks of the ...
... funds contributed or bequeathed by traders . The newspapers were supported by the advertisements of the propertied class . The various legislative bodies were mainly , and the judicial benches wholly , recruited from the ranks of the ...
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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 201 - SECTION 1. The congress shall have power to limit, regulate, and prohibit the labor of persons under eighteen years of age. "SECTION 2. The power of the several states is unimpaired by this article except that the operation of state laws shall be suspended to the extent necessary to give effect to legislation enacted by the congress.
Página 78 - I enjoin and require that no ecclesiastic, missionary, or minister of any sect whatsoever, shall ever hold or exercise any station or duty whatever in the said College; nor shall any such person ever be admitted for any purpose, or as a visitor, within the premises appropriated to the purposes of the said College.
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.
Página 171 - The ostensible purpose of the shaft is to provide light and air to the five rooms on each side of the house which get no direct light and air from the street or yard; but as the shafts are narrow and high, being...
Página 127 - Communication of the Rector, Church Wardens and Vestrymen of Trinity Church in the city of New York in reply to a resolution of the House, passed March 4, 1854"; Document No.
Página 343 - These railway kings are among the greatest men, perhaps I may say are the greatest men, in America. They have wealth, else they could not hold the position. They have fame, for every one has heard of their achievements; every newspaper chronicles their movements. They have power, more power — that is, more opportunity of making their personal will prevail — than...
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.