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1904 One night in 1904, the portly, ailing Bill rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One night in 1904, the portly, ailing Bill, then ninety-four, lowered himself into a chair but missed it. As he tried to grab something to break his fall, he broke his arm near the shoulder, an accident so severe that his survival seemed doubtful, and it became necessary to contact his next of kin. ●●

1904 Flexner develops meningitis serum amid NYC epidemic ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then a sudden opportunity for heroism arose during the winter of 1904–1905, when three thousand New Yorkers died in a cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic. In response, Flexner developed a serum in horses to treat the disease. ●●

1904 Under Biggar’s influence, Rockefeller nearly refused to provide rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Under Biggar’s influence, Rockefeller nearly refused to provide a $500,000 check to repair the Johns Hopkins Medical School after it was partially destroyed by fire in 1904—simply because the school refused to recognize homeopathy. ●●

1904 He must have fretted, too, about Junior’s debilitating rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He must have fretted, too, about Junior’s debilitating breakdown, which started in 1904 and dragged on for nearly three years, curtailing his activities. Senior must have feared that the stupendous weight of the fortune would crush his delicate son. ●●

1904 CHAPTER 26 The World’s Richest Fugitive As they rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER 26 The World’s Richest Fugitive As they approached the 1904 presidential election, Standard Oil executives knew that Teddy Roosevelt was still miffed at their attempt to snuff out his new Bureau of Corporations and that the oil trust stood at the top of his list of evil trusts to be reined in by federal regulators. ●●

1904 In 1904, he began dictating answers to biographical rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904, he began dictating answers to biographical questions posed by Starr Murphy, yet his heart was not in it, and the project soon expired. Work on an official Standard Oil history fared only marginally better. ●●

1904 She and her husband, Charles Strong, had moved rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story She and her husband, Charles Strong, had moved to Cannes in May 1904 to confer with neurological experts, especially a Dr. Bourcart. Now, two years later, she was also suffering from heart trouble and was too debilitated to return home. ●●

1904 In December 1904, the two young men pinched rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In December 1904, the two young men pinched a couple of telegrams and contacted Fred Eldridge, an editor at William Randolph Hearst’s New York American, who studied the loot and said it was worthless. ●●

1904 He kept a Peerless auto at Pocantico as rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He kept a Peerless auto at Pocantico as early as 1904. In the 1910s, cars began to fill his stone coach barn alongside the old-fashioned buckboards and coaches. Even as a young man, Rockefeller had been exhilarated by speed and motion, racing his trotting horses down Euclid Avenue, and he now took daily auto drives of fifty miles or more. ●●

1904 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Junior decided in 1904 that Alta and Parmalee were spending twice as much as their income warranted, Parmalee bristled at this intrusion into their private lives. The prodigal generosity displ... ●●

1904 Death of Edith's Daughter Editha candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904, Edith Rockefeller McCormick's one-year-old daughter Editha died, compounding her grief from her son's death three years earlier. The successive deaths profoundly affected her emotional development. ●●

1904 Max believed unhesitatingly that bankers should advance the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Max believed unhesitatingly that bankers should advance the overseas interests of their governments. Noting how his British counterparts stimulated an economic rebound from the Boer War, he observed i... ●●

1904 Noting how his British counterparts stimulated an economic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Noting how his British counterparts stimulated an economic rebound from the Boer War, he observed in his bank’s 1904 report, “This shrewd merger of finance and politics didn’t occur equally well in Ge... ●●

1904 Russia was not, in reality, a strong state; and it was still rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russia was not, in reality, a strong state; and it was still one which, given the drift in leadership, was capable of blundering unprepared into foreign complications, notwithstanding the lessons of 1 ●●

1904 Morgan’s colossal organization, the United States Steel Corp rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan’s colossal organization, the United States Steel Corporation.”155 When the famous British warship designer Sir William White made a tour of the United States in 1904, he was shaken to discover ●●

1904 CHAPTER 41––Museum Pieces In 1941 (1904) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1944, on the seventy-third anniversary of Felix’s birth, she bequeathed the Gothic structure that her father feared would precipitate Manhattan pog... ●●

1904 1904 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The same was true in the Far East, where the swift occupation of Manchuria, North Korea, and Sakhalin not only avenged the war of 1904–1905, but allowed a link-up with Mao’s Chines... ●●

1904 Olga Warburg dies by suicide in Berne ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1904, Olga Warburg leaped from a third-story window in Berne, Switzerland, driven to suicide by a loveless marriage and postpartum depression. The tragedy would haunt the family for decades. ●●

1904 Britain joins the Franco-Russian bloc ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Great Britain joined the Franco-Russian bloc with agreements in 1904 and 1907. ●●

1904 This had been true in the Crimean War of 1854, the... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This had been true in the Crimean War of 1854, the Balkan Wars of 1875–78, and prior to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904. One explanation for these tend ●●

1904 1904: George Stibitz (1904–95) circa 1945. Konrad Zuse (1910–95) with the Z4 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story George Stibitz (1904–95) circa 1945. Konrad Zuse (1910–95) with the Z4 computer in 19 ●●

1904 1904 - Dominican Republic - rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1904 - Dominican Republic - January 2 to February 11: To protect American interests in Puerto Plata and Sosua and Santo Domingo City during revolutionary fighting ●●

1904 Carnegie Institution opens Station for Experimental Evolution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On January 19, 1904, the Carnegie Institution formally inaugurated the Station for Experimental Evolution at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, under Charles Davenport's direction. This facility became the headquarters of American eugenics research. ●●

1904 Russo-Japanese War begins ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This amazing story begins with the war between Russia and Japan in 1904 ●●

1904 Galton dismisses human breeding as impractical candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite founding eugenics, Francis Galton admitted in 1904 that he was skeptical about the practical feasibility of regulating human breeding like livestock in a democratic society. ●●

1904 In 1904 it enlarged the traffic department, placing it under an experienced indu... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904 it enlarged the traffic department, placing it under an experienced industrialist, Frank G ●●

1904 On the basis of this information on fixed and working capital, Pierre’s departme... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On the basis of this information on fixed and working capital, Pierre’s department was by 1904 presenting the executive committee with monthly figures on costs, income, and rate of return on total capital investment for each of the company’s thirteen products ●●

1904 As early as November 1904, the executive committee’s members decided that they w... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As early as November 1904, the executive committee’s members decided that they were not appropriating capital systematically enough ●●

1904 President Barclay of Liberia reports on a crippling 1871 loan rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Liberia's President Arthur Barclay documented how an English loan originally worth 100,000 pounds, taken out in 1871, had grown into a debt burden the country could not shake off. ●●

22 January 1905 to 16 June 1907 Russian Revolution of 1905 wikidata 0 cit. no story wave of mass political and social unrest that spread through vast areas of the Russian Empire ●●●

7 June 1905 Independence of Norway 0 cit. no story Norway's parliament dissolves the union with Sweden, and Norway becomes a fully independent kingdom. politics ●●●

1905 Bloody Sunday at the Winter Palace, 1905 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the priest Gapon led a mass workers' march to the Winter Palace to petition the tsar; troops fired on them and hundreds were shot, helping ignite the 1905 revolution. ●●

1905 Chinese imperial examinations abolished (1905) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the old literary examination system for the civil service and mandarinate was abolished and a Ministry of Education modeled on Japan was established, reforms that weakened rather than strengthened the imperial regime. ●●

1905 Treaty of Portsmouth ends Russo-Japanese War (1905) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the 1905 Treaty of Portsmouth, Russia renounced influence in Korea and yielded southern Sakhalin and the Liaotung lease to Japan after its land and naval victories. ●●

1905 Schlieffen Plan drawn up (1905) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The German war plan, the Schlieffen Plan, was drawn up in 1905 and modified after 1906 by the younger Moltke, calling for a swift wheeling attack through Belgium to annihilate France. ●●

1905 Milner's farewell speech urges loyalty to imperial unity ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In his farewell speech of March 1905 Milner called on his hearers, especially the Kindergarten, to stay faithful to the idea of imperial unity. Quigley quotes it as the group's guiding creed. ●●

1905 Beit endows a chair of Colonial History at Oxford ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The year before his death Alfred Beit was persuaded to fund a Beit Professorship and Lectureship in Colonial History at Oxford. Quigley says the surplus income served other imperialist purposes. ●●

1905 Morley pushes through the Morley-Minto reforms in India ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John Morley was Secretary of State for India from 1905 to 1910 and put through the Morley-Minto reforms. Quigley says he drew on members of the Milner and All Souls groups to do it. ●●

1905 United States leads world coal production ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto gives 1905 coal-production figures to show the United States produced almost as much coal as the other three school-bound nations combined. He argues coal power underlay the creation of mass schooling. ●●

1905 Corporations employ most American wage earners ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that by 1905 industrial corporations employed 71 percent of all wage earners and mining another 10 percent, as forced-schooling laws gained enforcement power. ●●

1905 Banker Frank Vanderlip praises German schooling to the NEA ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto reports that in 1905 Frank Vanderlip, vice president of the National City Bank of New York, told the NEA convention that Germany's economic success could be summed up in one word: schoolmaster. ●●

1905 The First Moroccan Crisis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In March 1905 the Kaiser visited Tangiers and backed Moroccan independence, challenging French dominance in North Africa. France's premier Rouvier defused the confrontation and began the talks that led to the Anglo-French entente. ●●

1905 —President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 BY THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, T... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story —President Theodore Roosevelt, 1905 BY THE END OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY, THE TITANS OF BANKING WERE replacing the barons of industry as the beacons of economic supremacy in the... ●●

1905 Maji Maji uprising crushed in German Tanganyika ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As many as one hundred thousand Africans died in the German repression of an uprising in Tanganyika in 1905 ; in Southwest Africa, the Herero revolt m... ●●

1905 Russia defeated in the Russo-Japanese War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Russia defeated in Russo-Japanese War ●●

1905 Braden Copper Company begins mining at El Teniente ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the Braden Copper Company, which would later be absorbed into Kennecott Copper Corporation, began mining at El Teniente, a mountain of ore set (1905) ●●

1905 “I expect there is little sympathy and less confidence betwe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “I expect there is little sympathy and less confidence between father and son,” said Revelstoke, who was also afraid of being smothered by Pierpont.24 Soon after these talks collapsed in 1905, Dawkins... ●●

1905 By tearing down an intervening house, Jack and his father li rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By tearing down an intervening house, Jack and his father lived as next-door neighbors, with a common garden in between, from 1905 until Pier-pont’s death, in 1913. Jack continued to manage emotional ... ●●

1905 Though the series was published as a two-volume rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Though the series was published as a two-volume book in November 1904, she then capped it with a scathing two-part character study of Rockefeller in McClure’s in July and August of 1905. It does not detract from her achievement to state that she enjoyed the services of a first-rate research assistant, John M. ●●

1905 How dismayed Tarbell would have been to find rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story How dismayed Tarbell would have been to find Rockefeller writing to Archbold in July 1905: “I never appreciated more than at present the importance of our taking care of our business—holding it and increasing it in every part of the world.”118 Faced with Tarbell’s invective, Rockefeller was too proud to give the world the satisfaction of knowing that he was wounded. ●●

1905 Then a sudden opportunity for heroism arose during rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then a sudden opportunity for heroism arose during the winter of 1904–1905, when three thousand New Yorkers died in a cerebrospinal meningitis epidemic. In response, Flexner developed a serum in horses to treat the disease. ●●

1905 General Education Board funds higher education ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905, the GEB extended its purview to higher education with a $10 million gift from Rockefeller, followed by another $32 million in 1907—hailed by the board as “the largest sum ever given by a man in the history of the race for any social or philanthropic purposes.”19 (It would be equivalent to $500 million today.) Much of this last gift was routed to the University of Chicago. ●●

1905 La Follette said in 1905, “I read yesterday rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story La Follette said in 1905, “I read yesterday that Rockefeller has been to prayer meeting again; tomorrow he will be giving to some college or university. He gives with two hands, but he robs with many. If he should live a thousand years he could not expiate the crime he has committed. ●●

1905 In July 1905, he turned up at the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In July 1905, he turned up at the Euclid Avenue Baptist Church in an excellent mood, if slightly worn out, and chatted jovially with old friends. He even allowed himself some drollery at the end of his Sunday-school speech. ●●

1905 CHAPTER 25 The Codger By the close of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story CHAPTER 25 The Codger By the close of the Tarbell series in 1905, Rockefeller’s infamy as a businessman still overshadowed his budding philanthropic fame. He continued to cherish Forest Hill and Pocantico Hills as peaceful oases, sealed off from the outer world. ●●

1905 House urges antitrust probe of Standard Oil ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then, in February 1905, by a unanimous resolution, the House of Representatives urged an antitrust investigation of Standard Oil, a result of the oil boom in Kansas. ●●

1905 Roosevelt denounces 'muckrakers' at Gridiron Club ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Rockefeller assured Gates, “The owner of the World is also a large owner of property, and I presume that, in common with other newspaper owners who are possessed of wealth, his eyes are beginning to be opened to the fact that he is like Samson, taking the initiative to pull the building down upon his head.”27 By 1905, Rockefeller and his entourage were picking up hints that investigative zeal was ebbing among the editors at McClure’s, where, Starr Murphy reported, “the thing has now gone so far that they themselves are getting disgusted and heartily wish they were out of it.”28 In March 1906, Teddy Roosevelt delivered his famous speech at Washington’s Gridiron Club in which he borrowed a term from Pilgrim’s Progress and denounced the new investigative reporters as muckrakers who kept their eyes fixed on lowly matters instead of occasionally lifting them up to heaven. ●●

1905 “I weigh nearly two hundred pounds, without my rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “I weigh nearly two hundred pounds, without my five wigs,” he wrote in December 1905. “You should see them! They are real works of art, and most satisfactory. ●●

1905 Eager to levy an eye-popping fine against the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eager to levy an eye-popping fine against the trust, Landis asked its attorneys for figures on its capitalization and earnings between 1903 and 1905. The Standard lawyers, Landis knew, were in a tight spot: If they furnished the true figures, they might invite a punitive fine; if they withheld them, they would look guilty. ●●

1905 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the Armstrong investigation of 1905 exposed massive double-dealing between insurance companies and their bankers, reform legislation was enacted in 1911 that forced the Equitable Life Assuran... ●●

1905 Death of Alphonse de Rothschild ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alphonse de Rothschild, head of the Paris branch and one of the most influential bankers of the nineteenth century, died in 1905, marking the start of generational decline. ●●

1905 1905 Military Campaign rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The army, Stavka concluded, “is simply a huge, weary, shabby, and ill-fed mob of angry men united by their common thirst for peace and by common disappointment.”211 All that Russia... ●●

1905 Théophilie Warburg dies rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Théophilie, the francophile matriarch of the Alsterufer Warburgs, died after living in grandiose fashion with servants and winters on the Riviera. Aby S. took over the Alsterufer house. ●●

1905 Engraving after portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Page 1... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Engraving after portrait by Gilbert Stuart. Page 17 The United Nations General Assembly. Page 29 Left: Theodore Roosevelt, August 1905. ●●

1905 The Kaiser chose to make his point while on a crui... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Kaiser chose to make his point while on a cruise in March 1905. ●●

1905 Einstein explains the photoelectric effect ai_extracted 1 cit. no story that eventually won for him the Nobel Prize, Einstein connected Planck’s idea of limited, discontinuous energy levels to the problem of the photoelectric effect. ●●

1905 Nobel laureate Philipp Lenard, seeing relativity hailed and Einstein come to fame, retreated into a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Nobel laureate Philipp Lenard, seeing relativity hailed and Einstein come to fame, retreated into a vindictive anti-Semitism and lent his respectability to the Committee, which attacked relativity theory as a Jewish corruption and Einstein as a taste ●●

1905 Event of 1905 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ticipant in Asian groupings such as the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, even if over three-quarters of its population lives in the European portion of Russian territory. The United States in modern times has occasionally been invited to act as a b ●●

1905 Einstein's doctoral dissertation accepted at Zurich ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Einstein completed his doctoral dissertation titled 'A New Determination of Molecular Dimensions' on April 30 and submitted it to University of Zurich in July. It was accepted after minor revisions, making him Dr. Einstein. ●●

1905 Einstein publishes his Brownian motion paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Eleven days after finishing his dissertation (May 1905), Einstein produced a paper on Brownian motion explaining why particles suspended in liquid jiggle, settling the phenomenon that had puzzled scientists for eighty years. ●●

1905 Millikan verifies Einstein's photoelectric effect law ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Robert Millikan performed experiments that verified Einstein's photoelectric effect formulas and law of photoelectric effect. Einstein would later win his only Nobel Prize for discovering this law, though Millikan initially rejected the theory. ●●

1905 Einstein submits special relativity paper ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Einstein submitted his groundbreaking paper 'On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies' to the journal Annalen der Physik on June 30, 1905. The paper introduced special relativity and overturned Newton's concepts of absolute time and space. ●●

1905 Event of 1905 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story New national organizations emerged to unite eugenicists, begin- ning with Germany’s Society for Race Hygiene in 1905 ●●

1905 Congress, which had been excluded from the micromanagement of land sales back in 1905, reinserted it rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Congress, which had been excluded from the micromanagement of land sales back in 1905, reinserted itself. ●●

1905 Having been unsettled first by the revolution of 1905, Backe found himself in 1914 as an internee in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Having been unsettled first by the revolution of 1905, Backe found himself in 1914 as an internee in the Urals. ●●

1905 1904-05 - Korea - January rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1904-05 - Korea - January 5, 1904 to November 11, 1905: To guard the American Legation in Seoul ●●

1905 The nature of and reason for such controls was well expressed in the Bureau of C... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The nature of and reason for such controls was well expressed in the Bureau of Corporations report published in 1905: On account of their perishability the handling of fresh meat is a peculiarly delicate business ●●

1905 Journal of Accountancy begins monthly publication ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1905 the association that had published the proceedings of its meetings began to support the monthly Journal of Accountancy ●●

26 June 1906 Founding of the International Electrotechnical Commission 0 cit. no story Engineers from thirteen countries found the IEC in London, with Lord Kelvin as first president, to standardize electrical technology. It remains the global standards body for electrotechnology. diplomacy / technology ●●

1906 Algeciras Conference resolves First Moroccan Crisis (1906) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When the conference over Morocco met at Algeciras in 1906, Germany found itself supported only by Austria, and the crisis eased as belligerent leaders were removed on both sides. ●●

1906 Liberal landslide of 1906 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1906 election was a Liberal triumph, giving that party a plurality of 220 over the Conservatives and a majority of 84 over all other parties. Labour representation jumped from three to forty-three seats. ●●

1906 Curtis organizes 'Closer Union Groups' in South Africa ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906 Curtis resigned his official posts to organize 'Closer Union Groups' pushing for a federation of South Africa. Quigley presents this as the model later scaled up to the whole Empire. ●●

1906 Milner declares himself an imperialist at Wolverhampton ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Campaigning for Amery in 1906, Milner spoke at Wolverhampton with unorthodox views. He declared himself a deep-dyed imperialist and tariff reformer who believed in universal military training. ●●

1906 Viscount Halifax defends Milner over Chinese labor ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When Milner was attacked in 1906 for importing Chinese laborers into South Africa, the second Viscount Halifax rallied to him. He carried a resolution of appreciation for Milner's work in the House of Lords. ●●

1906 Quigley: the Milner Group out of power (1906-1915) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts the Milner Group was out of power from 1906 to 1915 but was content, since a Liberal government under Asquith and Grey pursued the foreign policy the Group wanted. ●●

1906 Rockefeller's General Education Board issues Occasional Letter Number One ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes the 1906 Occasional Letter Number One, the first mission statement of Rockefeller's General Education Board, which spoke of molding a docile, responsive rural folk rather than educating scholars. ●●

1906 Manhattan schools perform tonsillectomies without parental consent ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto recounts that in 1906 immigrant public schools in Manhattan began performing tonsillectomies and adenoidectomies on children without notifying parents. He cites a New York Times report that parents stormed the schools in protest. ●●

1906 Harris publishes 'The Philosophy of Education' ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes Harris's 1906 book The Philosophy of Education, in which Harris wrote that 99 of 100 students are automata who follow prescribed custom. Gatto reads this as an endorsement of producing compliant citizens. ●●

1906 Year 1906: An annex to the 1906 constitution made the Shah su rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An annex to the 1906 constitution made the Shah supreme commander of the Iranian army but also required him to cooperate with the elected government on political matters. Prime min... ●●

1906 Iran's first Majlis convenes ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iran's new constitutional parliament assembles for its historic first session, representing a landmark moment in the nation's attempt at democracy. ●●

1906 Iran adopts its first constitution ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Iran officially adopts its first constitution, modeled on Belgium's progressive constitution, establishing the framework for democratic governance. ●●

1906 Russian emperor convenes the first Duma ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, the Russian emperor convened a parliament-the Duma-of representatives elected unevenly from all regions and peoples of the empire. ●●

1906 By the time this happened, Russian 5 per cent bonds of the 1906 vintage were rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the time this happened, Russian 5 per cent bonds of the 1906 vintage were trading at below 45 per cent of their face value. ●●

1906 In 1906, Pierpont vouchsafed a private tour of his art colle rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, Pierpont vouchsafed a private tour of his art collection at 13 Princes Gate, the townhouse he inherited from his father, to King Edward VII. He had given the king financial advice, and the tw... ●●

1906 In the feverish mental state of his final rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the feverish mental state of his final days in early 1906, he repeatedly babbled the names of the five children from his first marriage—John, William, Frank, Lucy, and Mary Ann. And he would stare at the loyal Margaret and suddenly cry out, “You are not my wife. ●●

1906 To retire any lingering doubt, Macdonald went to rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To retire any lingering doubt, Macdonald went to the local library and found an obituary notice, dated May 11, 1906, for Dr. William Levingston, who had died at age ninety-six and was listed as the oldest man in Freeport. ●●

1906 Standard Oil of Ohio hires its first Black employee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is interesting to note in this context that Standard Oil of Ohio did not hire its first permanent black employee until 1906. At the beginning, the well-heeled GEB grafted its work onto that of the Southern Education Board, the shoestring operation started by Robert Ogden. ●●

1906 An internal memo written to George Rogers in rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story An internal memo written to George Rogers in 1906 sheds some light on this intriguing question. To assist Standard Oil in its political travails, Archbold asked Rockefeller in October 1906 to publish a list of the dozen or so colleges to which he had given significant endowments. ●●

1906 In 1906, a forbidding iron fence, eight feet rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, a forbidding iron fence, eight feet tall and topped by wire netting, suddenly rose around Forest Hill, closing off sections to the public. This caution was now warranted, since Rockefeller was inundated with death threats and hired Pinkerton detectives to protect himself. ●●

1906 Roosevelt signs the Pure Food and Drug Act ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906, Roosevelt signed a stack of bills to curb industrial abuses. Profiting from the outcry prompted by Upton Sinclair’s novel The Jungle, he signed the meat-inspection bill and the Pure Food and Drug Act. ●●