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Rockefeller regarded his fortune as a public trust

1900 · importance 2/5 · ai_extracted

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Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. whole source · open book
Rockefeller regarded his fortune as a public trust, not as a private indulgence, and the pressure to dispose of it grew imperative in the early 1900s as his Standard Oil stock and other investments appreciated fantastically.

chapter: CHAPTER 23 - Faith of Fools

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Start date (EDTF) 1900 End date (EDTF, empty for a point event)

1914 · 1914-07-28 · -0489 (490 BCE) · 1930~ (circa) · 19XX (century) · 197X (decade)

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