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With the Tarbell series under way, Rockefeller kept a salutary distance from his new foundation.

Rockefeller was never tempted to reconsider the issues raised by the Sherman Act.

Will I write a check or would you prefer payment in Standard Oil shares?

Rockefeller almost never spoke so viciously—but he did bear a special grudge against Scofield.

But we are not, we are as much opposed to the financial policy of J. Pierpont Morgan as we are to the financial policy of the Rothschilds."14

BY the 1880s, as his health was fading

Contrary to her father's predictions, Ida inflicted far more damage on Standard Oil than she received in return.

After Rockefeller threatened legal action, Dr. Smith settled for $500.

had larger concerns than most bankers of his day.

Taft insisted that his guests bypass the main door and enter through a side door of the east entrance.

This generosity only highlighted Frank's chronic dependency and further embittered him.

This testimony was not only a fiasco for the judge but a public-relations victory for Rockefeller.

the Rothschilds dismissed the French cause as hopeless.

said Morgan, who agreed to make up the church's deficits.

While he had thought the Landis fine excessive, he had thought the trial itself fair.

although she never guessed the depths of corruption revealed by Rockefeller's papers.

Seldom has history produced such a contradictory figure.

From the outset, Pierpont's relationship with Jack differed from his own with Junius.

Sam had laced nearly everything in the paper with his screwball wit—proposing in one news item that a newly enacted whiskey tax made it a patriotic duty to drink.)

The worst thing the nineteen sixties did to this country was introduce drugs to rednecks

What does eminent domain mean?" Stewart asked. "It means you're shit out of luck," Ross said.

As one scholar put it, "No one has made more impact on the translation of the Bible into English than William Tyndale.

Of course, to attain righteousness by observing the law, people must keep the law perfectly (James 2:10), which no person is capable of doing.

In Hudson, John Brown would assert his indictment of slavery to anybody who would listen. Jesse listened.