Only later did Gates learn that Gould had
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- Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. whole source · open book
Only later did Gates learn that Gould had been tipped off by a trusted aide that the company management was “rotten” and that its top executives were a pack of “liars,” “swindlers,” and “thieves.”1 To strengthen CFI, Gates convinced Rockefeller in 1907 to import a new management team, and he had an ideal candidate in mind: his sixty-year-old uncle, LaMont Montgomery Bowers, whose consumptive wife might benefit from the Colorado mountain air.
chapter: CHAPTER 29 - Massacre