标题: THE ROCKEFELLERS [打印本页] 作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-1-18 06:09 标题: THE ROCKEFELLERS THE FATHER
Two men have been supreme in creating the modern world: Rockefeller and Bismarck. One in economics, the otehr in politics.
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The contrversy eventually spread from the small rented hall in downtown Boston to the whole nation. Newspapers were flooded with opinions on teh mixed blessings of accepting the offering. the term "trainted money" entered the vocabulary of the common man.作者: Kathy 时间: 06-1-18 13:36
What does "trainted money" mean, Charles?作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-1-19 18:24 标题: Dear Kat: i have to go to my office to look at that book... later,
Charles.作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-1-20 04:51 标题: Dear Kat: now i am in the office to read that book, you know what? "trainted" should be "tainted", my fault!! sorry about that! i looked it up in the dictionary saying that " make or become infected".作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-1-20 04:57
Senator Robert LaFollette called hi " the greatest criminal of the age." Ida Tarbell's recently published History of the Standard Oil Company was enough to convince anyone that the name Rockfeller was a synonym for unbridled ruthlessness and power.
John D. Rockefeller was indeed the wealthiest.作者: Kathy 时间: 06-1-20 10:36
I got it! Thank you very much, Charles.作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-2-2 18:20 标题: I have to change the topic for time being to attact More attentions!!!!!
搞笑生活...
“是月下老狗。”作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-2-4 04:11 标题: The making of the great Standard Oil fortune was an accident. It was... as if a door had stood open for a brief historical moment and Rockefeller, who just happened to be passing by, managered to squeeze in before it closed. Never before had it been possible for an individual to build the organization he built; it would never be possible again.It was the random collision of a man with an opportunity.作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-2-4 04:17 标题: One man who made myth as well as money was Andrew Carnegie, the Scottish bobbin boy who had come to America and made himself King of Steel. The millionaires who controlled American industry, he wrote later in his career......started as poor boys, and where trained in the sternest but most efficient of schools--poveryt. "作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-2-24 05:53 标题: On June 1, 1914, King received a telegram from the Rockefeller Foundation asking him to come to New York for a discussion about a major project it was beginning. He didnot know it at the time, but
the invitation had come bnecause of a speech he had given at Cambridge on labor theory a few years earlier. One of those
in attendance, Harvard's august president, Charles W. Eliot, had been much impressed, as had been Jerome Greene, the
secretary of the Harvard Corporation. Now Greene was secretary of the Rockefeller Foundation and Eliot was its most
distinguished trustee.作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-4-11 03:51
The inner circle of Associates ws constantly expanding. Fosdick had first brought Arthur Woods to Junior's attention, and in
1921 he hired another young man with formidable talents, Beardley Ruml. It was to Ruml that he entrusted the task of
making a survey of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Museum of Natural History, and the New York Public Library, to which Junior proposed t ogive a sum of one million dollars each. Apsychology Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, Bearsley Ruml was a huge, florid-faced man of Czech parentage who had already established himself in business and philanthropy when Fosdick brought him to Juniour's attention.
Formerly employed as an advisor to the Armour and Swift companies, and assistant to the president of the Carnegie Corpor-ation, Ruml was one of the new breed of intellectual entrepreneurs able to move smoothly between the worlds of universities, business, and government, creating agencies, assebling networks of influence, and in general helping to blueprint the
emergence of the new administrative state.作者: Charlie Z. Song 时间: 06-5-18 03:07 标题: 05/17/2006 2:47pm, in the office P144 As the first years of Junior's leadership passed, the Office came to function more and more like a business. Decisions that
had once been made according to Gates's and Senior's individual quirks and interests were now made through established
channels. The foundations had their own administrators; in making his personal charitable gifts.