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1906 I sleep in one, and do not know rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I sleep in one, and do not know how I got along all these years without the hair.”30 In spring 1906, frustrated by Bessie’s absence, Rockefeller and Cettie decided to spend seven weeks with the Strongs in France—an eternity abroad for these two provincials—at their summer residence in Compiègne, northeast of Paris. ●●

1906 “I have as my constant companions at golf rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “I have as my constant companions at golf, magazine writers and newspaper men,” Rockefeller wrote to Harold McCormick in September 1906. “They say they did not know me before, and seem entirely friendly and well disposed.” 57 As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change. ●●

1906 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Among his triumphs, he extended a six-million-dollar loan to the fledgling General Motors in 1906—about $98 million today—taking notes for his cash. When the notes were paid off, Rockefeller took p... ●●

1906 Again like Aby, he viewed the world through rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Again like Aby, he viewed the world through a filter darkened by his own depression and saw problems perhaps hidden to happier souls. In 1906 he warned the Chamber of Commerce, “I do not like to play ... ●●

1906 In 1906 he warned the Chamber of Commerce, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1906 he warned the Chamber of Commerce, “I do not like to play the role of Cassandra, but mark what I say. ●●

1906 And since most of the other countries after 1906 were turnin rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And since most of the other countries after 1906 were turning their attention from Asia and Africa to developments in the Balkans and North Sea, it was perhaps not surprising that they tended to see t ●●

1906 19. AW Kopierbuch I Hamburg Transcript, p. 181 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 19. AW Kopierbuch I Hamburg Transcript, p. 181, letter to Max Warburg, February 1, 1906. ●●

1906 and some reports claim that a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story and some reports claim that a son died as well, in a separate incident. ●●

1906 Algeciras Conference opens ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ch Germany had isolated itself became evident at the opening of the Algeciras Conference in January 1906. ●●

1906 G.R.S. Mead publishes Thrice Greatest Hermes ai_extracted 1 cit. no story G.R.S. Mead, a classical scholar and former secretary to Madame H.P. Blavatsky, published the three-volume Thrice Greatest Hermes, a comprehensive translation of Hermetic literature including the Corpus Hermeticum, two years before The Kybalion appeared. ●●

1906 1906: Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper (1906–92) with a part of Babbage’s Diffe rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper (1906–92) with a part of Babbage’s Difference Engine at Harvard in 1946. Jean Jennings and Frances Bilas with ENIAC. Jea ●●

1906 1906: vard and then for Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Born Grace Brewster rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story vard and then for Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. Born Grace Brewster Murray in 1906, she was from a prosperous family on the Upper West Side of Manh ●●

1906 Information history in 1906 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story eating-its-tail feedback loop that seemed to turn on the possibility of self-contradiction. This was his firewall. ●●

1906 Lee De Forest invents the triode vacuum tube ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Numerical codes would be granted full control—including the power to modify themselves.1 The age of electronics began in 1906 with Lee De Forest’s in ●●

1906 Zworykin began working on the problem of television with Bor rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Zworykin began working on the problem of television with Boris Rosing in Russia in 1906, and, after leading RCA’s development of commercial television ●●

1906 Lagos Colony merges with Niger Delta Protectorate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was based on a merger of the Protectorate of Northern Nigeria and the Colony and Protectorate of Southern Nigeria, the latter itself the product of a merger that had taken place between Lagos Colony and the Niger Delta Protectorate in 1906. ●●

1906 First modern law school opens in Beijing ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Two Japanese scholars, Okada Asataro and Matsuoka Yoshitada, established the first modern law school in Beijing in 1906. ●●

1906 1906-09 - Cuba - September rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1906-09 - Cuba - September 1906 to January 23, 1909: Intervention to restore order, protect foreigners, and establish a stable government after serious revolutionary activity ●●

1906 At this time, American Sugar sold, besides its holdings in the beet sugar compan rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At this time, American Sugar sold, besides its holdings in the beet sugar companies, its holdings of 12 percent in Cuban-American Sugar, a cane sugar ●●

1906 Leopold II founds precursor of the Bakwanga diamond company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Leopold II formed the mining company at the root of what became Societe Miniere de Bakwanga with the help of two American businessmen, laying the groundwork for one of the Congo's richest diamond concessions. ●●

17 December 1907 Founding of the Kingdom of Bhutan 0 cit. no story Ugyen Wangchuck is crowned as the first hereditary king of Bhutan, unifying the country under the Wangchuck monarchy. politics ●●

26 September 1907 Dominion of New Zealand 0 cit. no story New Zealand becomes a self-governing dominion within the British Empire, a key step toward full independence. politics ●●●

1907 Anglo-Russian Entente divides Persia (1907) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story German naval rivalry and Russia's defeat by Japan made possible the 1907 Anglo-Russian agreement, which divided Persia into Russian, British, and neutral zones of influence. ●●

1907 Quigley: international banking fraternity strengthened the Triple Entente ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts that the international banking fraternity, largely excluded from German development but linked to France and Russia, helped create and strengthen the Triple Entente. ●●

1907 The Selborne Federation Dispatch issued ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Curtis's memorandum on closer union, with additions by Kerr and Selborne, was issued as the Selborne Federation Dispatch of 7 January 1907. It was published as an Imperial Blue Book. ●●

1907 Committee of Imperial Defence created (1907) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the 1907 Conference, on Haldane's suggestion, a Committee of Imperial Defence was created and Dominion defense forces were reorganized on common patterns. Quigley says its secretariat became a Milner Group branch. ●●

1907 Quigley: RIIA rooted in the 1907 Closer Union movement ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley asserts the Royal Institute of International Affairs is the Milner Group writ large, a child of the Round Table, which itself grew from the Closer Union movement organized in South Africa in 1907. ●●

1907 Kenneth Freeman's The Schools of Hellas ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites Kenneth Freeman's 1907 study The Schools of Hellas, which concluded there were no schools in ancient Greece in the modern institutional sense. ●●

1907 Bagley's 'Classroom Management' becomes a standard training text ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites William C. Bagley's 1907 book Classroom Management, reprinted thirty times over the next two decades. He argues its big-business metaphors, stressing unquestioned obedience, shaped the pedagogical imagination for the century. ●●

1907 J. P. Morgan and the Panic of 1907 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book asserts, drawing on Quigley, that J. P. Morgan precipitated the Panic of 1907. It argues the panic was used to build public demand for the central bank the Network wanted. ●●

1907 The Panic of 1907 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In October 1907 a failed stock corner set off runs on New York banks and trust companies. With no central bank, the country turned to J. P. Morgan, who marshaled the rescue. ●●

1907 A 1907 New York Times headline, echoing the widespread sentiment that Morga... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A 1907 New York Times headline, echoing the widespread sentiment that Morgan and his crew had masterfully saved the economy, declared Morgan the “world’s central bank.” Morgan... ●●

1907 The 1907 panic had revealed the weakness in the Morgan-dominated banking sy... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1907 panic had revealed the weakness in the Morgan-dominated banking system, in that it relied too heavily on the maneuvers and money of an elite group of men who wielded... ●●

1907 Jekyll Island, 1910 After the Panic of 1907, bankers and politicians alike... rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story Jekyll Island, 1910 After the Panic of 1907, bankers and politicians alike sought a more stable banking system, though for different reasons. Despite J. P. ●●

1907 It served to push memories of the Panic of 1907 and the Pujo hearings into... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It served to push memories of the Panic of 1907 and the Pujo hearings into a receding spot in the national consciousness. Citizens began to view the bankers not as crooks but as... ●●

1907 Anglo-Russian Convention signed over Asian routes ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I n 1907, Russia signed a treaty with the British, who were set on controlling the routes to India. ●●

1907 Britain and Russia divide Iran into spheres ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Britain and Russia sign a treaty dividing Iran into spheres of influence, with Britain controlling southern provinces and Russia the north. ●●

1907 Theodore Roosevelt launches the Great White Fleet ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Theodore Roosevelt deployed the Great White Fleet, consisting of sixteen battleships carrying 14,000 troops. The massive naval display on December 16, 1907, demonstrated U.S. military power across the Caribbean and South America. ●●

1907 Some have traced the origins of the war back to the naval race of the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Some have traced the origins of the war back to the naval race of the mid-1890s; others to events in the Balkans after 1907. ●●

1907 He had long bewailed his inability to delegate authority—“It rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He had long bewailed his inability to delegate authority—“It is my nature and I cannot help it”—and held no formal meeting of his partners until after the 1907 panic.55 Despite the scope of his vision... ●●

1907 After Pierpont’s heroic role in the 1907 panic, Schiff said, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After Pierpont’s heroic role in the 1907 panic, Schiff said, “Probably no one could have got the banks to act together . ●●

1907 Maxine Elliott builds first woman-owned Broadway theater ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Maxine Elliott was the first woman to build a Broadway theater, purchasing the needed lot two months after the 1907 panic. Scandalmongers attributed the financing to Morgan. ●●

1907 The October 1907 panic found him at the Episcopal Convention rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The October 1907 panic found him at the Episcopal Convention in Richmond, Virginia. As a lay delegate from New York, he would attend these conventions in opulent style, bringing bishops down by privat... ●●

1907 “They do not know what to do, and I don’t know what to do, b rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story “They do not know what to do, and I don’t know what to do, but I am going back.”3 The 1907 panic was Pierpont’s last hurrah. Although semiretired, reporting to work periodically for only an hour or t... ●●

1907 The 1907 panic would be the last time that bankers loomed so rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1907 panic would be the last time that bankers loomed so much larger than regulators in a crisis. Afterward, the pendulum would swing decidedly toward government financial management. ●●

1907 Morgan rescues Trust Company of America ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During the 1907 panic, Pierpont proved that American finance could aspire to high drama. In an elaborate finale on Saturday night, November 2, he devised a rescue for the still-shaky Trust Company of ... ●●

1907 Despite this controversy, Pierpont reached the zenith of his rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite this controversy, Pierpont reached the zenith of his influence with the 1907 panic. As his biographer Frederick Lewis Allen wrote, “Where there had been many principalities, there was now one ... ●●

1907 The 1907 panic exposed many systemic defects rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The 1907 panic exposed many systemic defects. As people hoarded money and banks called in loans, there was no central bank to instill confidence or offset the sudden credit contraction. ●●

1907 As was clear in the 1907 panic, the handsome Davison had sta rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As was clear in the 1907 panic, the handsome Davison had star quality, a square-jawed toughness noticed by everyone on Wall Street. He had grown up in a small Pennsylvania town, the son of a farm-tool... ●●

1907 U.S. Steel acquires Tennessee Coal and Iron ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Steel’s acquisition of Tennessee Coal and Iron during the 1907 panic. This was the deal that Judge Gary and Henry Frick had gotten TR to approve during his breakfast. ●●

1907 After the 1907 panic, Pierpont also took a large block of Na rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the 1907 panic, Pierpont also took a large block of National City stock and put Jack on its board. The public could be forgiven for suspecting that these “Morgan banks” avoided competition and e... ●●

1907 James Markoe, who pumped Pierpont with medication during the rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story James Markoe, who pumped Pierpont with medication during the 1907 panic, received a $25,000 annuity, which was to revert to his pretty wife, Annette, should she outlive him. ●●

1907 Steel, the cornering of Northern Pacific, the negotiations i rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Steel, the cornering of Northern Pacific, the negotiations in the 1907 panic—were exclusively American in character. After Pierpont Morgan’s death, the House of Morgan would become less autocratic, le... ●●

1907 When he solicited a gold loan in Paris during the 1907 panic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When he solicited a gold loan in Paris during the 1907 panic, the Banque de France rebuffed him—a hard knock for Junius Morgan’s grandson. Wall Street wits said that after returning to New York in 190... ●●

1907 Where Pierpont held no regular meetings until the 1907 panic rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Where Pierpont held no regular meetings until the 1907 panic, Jack scheduled daily partners’ meetings in the informal style of a British merchant bank. No stenographer was present, and no minutes were... ●●

1907 The son of eastern European immigrants, a Harvard Law gradua rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The son of eastern European immigrants, a Harvard Law graduate, Brandeis was already a millionaire lawyer in 1907 when he took on the New Haven as a public-interest cause. That year, he spearheaded th... ●●

1907 He was a protege of Harry Davison, who had made him a secret rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was a protege of Harry Davison, who had made him a secretary of Bankers Trust and brought him in as Pierpont’s personal auditor during the 1907 panic. There was an emotional bond between the two me... ●●

1907 Why did Continental choose Morgan to lead the rescue—a choice so re... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Continental began to unravel during the Fourth of July weekend of 1982 with the failure of the Penn Square Bank. This was the notorious Oklahoma shopping-center bank that had booked and resold to Continental $1 billion in bum energy loans. (One pi... ●●

1907 In August 1907, still baffled in its search rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In August 1907, still baffled in its search for Doc Rockefeller, the World ran the interview with Frank recorded a year and a half earlier. “My father is alive and well,” a defiant Frank was quoted as saying. ●●

1907 In the summer of 1907, his dear friend rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the summer of 1907, his dear friend Henry H. Rogers had suffered a stroke, and Twain had stayed with him in Bermuda from February 24 to April 11, 1908, easing his convalescence. Twain’s favorite daughter, Susy, had died of spinal meningitis a decade earlier at age twenty-four. ●●

1907 Judge Landis rules in the Standard Oil case ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On the morning of August 3, 1907, as more than a thousand people sought entrance to his courtroom, Landis read aloud his decision in the Standard Oil case. ●●

1907 With the final amalgamation of Royal Dutch and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With the final amalgamation of Royal Dutch and Shell in 1907, Standard Oil at last faced a worthy competitor abroad, while the Anglo-Persian Oil Company was tapping rich new fields in the Middle East. At home, more oil poured forth from Texas, Oklahoma, California, Kansas, and Illinois, providing an opening wedge for assertive newcomers. ●●

1907 Only later did Gates learn that Gould had rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 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. ●●

1907 Standard Oil Production Committee Formed rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Rockefeller and Archbold later claimed in 1907 when their subsequent behavior was questioned, “Since the enactment of the interstate commerce law in 1887, the Standard Oil Co. has most carefully... ●●

1907 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1907, Standard Oil was briefly slapped with the largest fine in corporate history for a practice it had supposedly given up long before. ●●

1907 During this time, if I may use a rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During this time, if I may use a bold comparison, I have taken from the British one trench after another and I have attacked again and again, as soon as I could find the means for it.”24 Max hoped to... ●●

1907 Max Warburg's Bank Day speech on war readiness ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1907, he created a sensation by delivering a Bank Day speech about Germany’s lack of financial preparedness for war. ●●

1907 As in 1907, he felt duty-bound to act, even though he knew... (1907) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As in 1907, he felt duty-bound to act, even though he knew he would be crucified. ●●

1907 1907 Diplomatic Agreement rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first was the 1907 Anglo-Russian entente over Persia, Tibet, and Afghanistan, in itself a regional affair but with wider implications for not only did it eliminate those Asian ... ●●

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

1907 Instead of wrecking the Entente Cordiale, it led t... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Instead of wrecking the Entente Cordiale, it led to Franco-British military cooperation and lent impetus to the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. After A ●●

1907 1907: anufacturing specialists, and ingenious tinkerers. BELL LABS In 1907 t rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story anufacturing specialists, and ingenious tinkerers. BELL LABS In 1907 the American Telephone and Telegraph Company faced a crisis. The patents of its f ●●

1907 Event of 1907 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story have learned, cannot be gained by goodwill alone.” Peace would be strengthened, not obstructed, he assessed, by continued demonstrations of American power and a proven willingness to act globally—which evoked shades of Theodore Roosevelt sending the ●●

1907 Einstein publishes the equivalence principle ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In November 1907, Einstein published a fifth section in the Yearbook of Radioactivity and Electronics outlining his new equivalence principle and sketch of ideas for extending relativity to accelerated reference systems. ●●

1907 1907 - Honduras - March rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1907 - Honduras - March 18 to June 8: To protect American interests during a war between Honduras and Nicaragua; troops were stationed for a few days or weeks in Trujillo, Ceiba, Puerto Cortez, San Pedro, Laguna and Choloma ●●

1907 As Eichner points out: “The government’s objectives in the suit had, to a certai rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As Eichner points out: “The government’s objectives in the suit had, to a certain extent, already been accomplished through the death in 1907 of the A ●●

1908 Young Turk revolt restores the constitution, 1908 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In July 1908 the Young Turk conspirators, having penetrated the army, revolted and forced the sultan to reestablish the Constitution of 1876. ●●

1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina (October 1908) ai_extracted 2 cit. no story While Izvolski sought the Powers' consent for opening the Straits, Aehrenthal suddenly annexed Bosnia and Herzegovina on October 6, 1908, leaving Russia empty-handed and creating a lasting war crisis. ●●

1908 Sorel's Reflections on Violence ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley traces one response to the twentieth-century crisis, an embrace of irrationalism, back to Georges Sorel's 1908 Reflections on Violence. ●●

1908 Round Table Groups organized ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley says the Round Table Groups were organized in 1908-1911 by Lionel Curtis, Philip Kerr, and William Marris on behalf of Lord Milner, to federate the English-speaking world along lines laid down by Cecil Rhodes. ●●

1908 A hidden buyer, Northcliffe, acquires control of The Times ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley recounts that in 1908 a purchaser known only as 'X' gained control of The Times. Esher visited Lord Northcliffe, who was 'X', to secure assurances that the paper's policy would not change. ●●

1908 Publisher Henry Holt calls for central control of industry ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto cites publisher Henry Holt, who in 1908 said there was 'too much enterprise' and argued that whole industries, including schooling, should be put under central control. ●●

1908 NEA convention questions schooling the masses, 1908 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto quotes a 1908 National Education Association convention admission questioning whether the masses should be schooled the same way as future leaders. ●●

1908 Carnegie trustees ask whether war can alter a people ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The book relays researcher Katherine Casey's account that in 1908 Carnegie trustees discussed whether any means more effective than war existed to alter the life of an entire people. It presents this as documentary proof of a war-seeking agenda. ●●

1908 General Motors founded by William Durant ai_extracted 1 cit. no story General Motors was founded in 1908 by William Crapo Durant. He assembled Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac, and Pontiac before losing control in 1910, regaining it in 1915, and losing it again in 1920. ●●

1908 7 When it came time to fill two life membership vacancies on the Princeton... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 7 When it came time to fill two life membership vacancies on the Princeton Board of Trustees, in early November 1908, Wilson suggested the spots “be filled by some man who can be... ●●

1908 Roosevelt backs Taft for president ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Roosevelt decided not to run for reelection in 1908, but he backed William Howard Taft, a man later described by Senator Nelson Aldrich’s great-grandson as a “well-fed... ●●

1908 idea of a modern colonialism was set forth rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The idea of a modern colonialism was set forth in its own time by pub lications like Paul Leroy-Beaulieu's 1 8 74 book, De la colonisation chez des pe... ●●

1908 Congo Free State becomes a Belgian colony ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By 1908, Leopold was forced to turn the Congo from a private domain into a formal Belgian colony and make gestures to cleaning up its administration. ●●

1908 Having won the parlia mentary elections in 1908, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Having won the parlia mentary elections in 1908, the party pursued a centralizing agenda, under cutting local notables, attempting to replace entrench... ●●

1908 Kaiser-Hommage procession celebrates the Habsburg dynasty ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Kaiser-Hommage procession celebrates Habsburg dynasty ●●

1908 On February 2, 1908, the nightmare that had rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On February 2, 1908, the nightmare that had haunted John D. Rockefeller his whole life suddenly burst forth in bold print. ●●

1908 Sure that the house was now ready, they rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sure that the house was now ready, they apprehensively invited John and Cettie to sample it in October 1908, and it seemed, at first, an unparalleled success. “The new house all furnished by John and Abby was ready for us,” Cettie recorded in her diary. ●●

1908 In 1908, Charles told Junior that he had rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1908, Charles told Junior that he had dismissed Margaret’s beloved Irish governess, a Miss Lawrenson, for introducing religion into their household. “I find that, quite without her fault, Margaret was imbibing Catholic ideas, and there was nothing for it but to make a change, greatly as I regretted letting Miss L. ●●

1908 I am willing to meet and talk with rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I am willing to meet and talk with any body of men, friends or enemies.” 67 On May 20, 1908, Doubleday sat at the head of the luncheon table at the Aldine Club, surrounded by forty or fifty magazine publishers, when the rear door flew open and Mark Twain, Henry Rogers, and the two Rockefellers, junior and senior, marched single file into the room. ●●

1908 Appeals court overturns Landis's Standard Oil fine ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In July 1908, a federal appeals court not only revoked the fine but severely reprimanded Landis for considering each carload of oil as a separate offense. Judge Peter S. Grosscup, calling Landis’s act an “abuse of judicial discretion,” ordered a retrial, in which Standard Oil was subsequently found not guilty. ●●

1908 Rockefeller endorses Taft for president ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the 1908 election, he was relieved to be free of Teddy Roosevelt, who handed over the Republican nomination to his corpulent secretary of war, William Howard Taft. On October 29, 1908, in a cameo appearance at 26 Broadway, Rockefeller endorsed Taft for president. ●●

1908 Rogers and Mark Twain sailing together in Bermuda rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rogers and Mark Twain sailing together in Bermuda in 1908. (Courtesy of the Mark Twain Project, the Bancroft Library). ●●

1908 Oil Industry Development rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1908, he returned as a patient to the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic outside Zurich under the care of Dr. ●●

1908 With the Reichstag vice-president sitting beside a beaming rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story With the Reichstag vice-president sitting beside a beaming Moritz, Max noted that the Reich gold reserves in the Julius tower at Spandau would be depleted within the first weeks of war. Yet Max was no... ●●