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1903 Davison founds Bankers Trust Company ai_extracted 1 cit. no story While there, he organized Bankers Trust in 1903, assisted in the 1907 panic negotiations, and represented Wall Street on Senator Aldrich’s National Monetary Commission. These exploits won the attentio... ●●

1903 In 1903, at the age of thirty-three, he was returning home o rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1903, at the age of thirty-three, he was returning home on the commuter train to Englewood when Harry Davison took his life in hand. As he entered the car, Davison was, musing about choices for a s... ●●

1903 By the third installment in January 1903, President rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By the third installment in January 1903, President Roosevelt himself was voraciously reading Tarbell’s articles and even sent her a flattering note. Her celebrity spread with each issue, and her level gaze stared out from countless newspaper profiles. ●●

1903 She wrote to Siddall in February 1903, “It rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story She wrote to Siddall in February 1903, “It is very interesting to note now, that the thing is well under way, and I have not been kidnapped or sued for libel as some of my friends prophesied, people are willing to talk freely to me.” 107 From today’s perspective, when corporations have teams of publicists who swing into action at the first whiff of trouble, Standard Oil’s muted reaction appears to be a perplexing miscalculation. ●●

1903 Rockefeller claimed that he had not even deigned rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rockefeller claimed that he had not even deigned to glance at McClure’s, a claim inadvertently refuted by Adella Prentiss Hughes, Cettie’s nurse and companion, who traveled with the Rockefellers on a western train trip in the spring of 1903. ●●

1903 In 1903, Life magazine ran a cartoon of rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1903, Life magazine ran a cartoon of Ye Rich Rockefeller University, showing a lady holding aloft a lamp marked Standard Oil, her robes checkered with dollar signs. Though Rockefeller studiously avoided the campus and visited only three times (1897, 1901, and 1903), he got little credit for this self-abnegation. ●●

1903 It is the religion of Jesus, of science rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It is the religion of Jesus, of science, and of evolution alike.”58 In his papers, Gates left a startling memo, “The Spirit of True Religion,” which he apparently wrote to clarify his thoughts and in which he candidly stated, “There is no essential difference between religion and morality except that the one is more intense and passionate than the other.” 59 In 1903, he bluntly told one applicant that while Rockefeller was a Baptist, he would no longer establish Baptist schools “for the sole purpose of propagating those views which are peculiarly and distinctively Baptist.”60 The $100,000 gift of what came to be called tainted money was solicited by Dr. ●●

1903 Their first child, Abby—known as Babs—was born at rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Their first child, Abby—known as Babs—was born at 13 West Fifty-fourth Street in 1903, followed by John D. ●●

1903 As he told his father in 1907, “I rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As he told his father in 1907, “I have always wished, simply as a matter of satisfaction to myself, that my salary might represent the real value of my services in the office, while as it is and has been in the past it represents rather your generosity.”34 Before 1911, Rockefeller made only token transfers of oil stock to his son, starting with his first annual gift of one hundred shares of Standard Oil of New Jersey in 1903, but he also deeded to him parcels of valuable property in Cleveland, Buffalo, and New York. ●●

1903 But as early as 1903, he and Parmalee rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But as early as 1903, he and Parmalee Prentice beseeched Senior to publish an authorized biography to rebut Tarbell’s work before it formed the basis of future histories. Sure that history would vindicate him, Rockefeller at first temporized, then compromised to appease his son—setting a pattern for the next three decades. ●●

1903 Elkins Act forbids railroad rebates ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When rebates were again forbidden by the Elkins Act of 1903 and the Hepburn Act of 1906, the public naively assumed they had ended. ●●

1903 Afraid that a state charter for a Rockefeller rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Afraid that a state charter for a Rockefeller Foundation could be repealed at the whim of an unfriendly state legislature, Junior and Gates aimed for a more prestigious federal charter for the new foundation, such as that received by the GEB in 1903. ●●

1903 As early as October 1903, Junior sent fighting rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As early as October 1903, Junior sent fighting words to CFI’s president on the subject: “We are prepared to stand by in this fight and see the thing out, not yielding an inch. ●●

1903 British navy converts battleships to fuel oil ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1903, the British navy outfitted some battleships to use fuel oil instead of coal, attracting the notice of the U.S. ●●

1903 Rosen, nicknamed “the famine angel of Russia (1903) rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rosen, nicknamed “the famine angel of Russia.” After being jailed in Siberia for his Menshevik views, Rosen emigrated to the United States in 1903. ●●

1903 1903, it fanned unrest in Panama into a full-scale... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1903, it fanned unrest in Panama into a full-scale insurrection. ●●

1903 Rutherford and Soddy calculate radioactive decay energy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story paper written with Soddy, “Radioactive change,” offered the first informed calculations of the amount of energy released by radioactive decay: It may therefore be stated that the total energy of radiation during the disintegration of one gram of rad ●●

1903 by bombarding elements with cathode rays. rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story by bombarding elements with cathode rays. ●●

1903 before going to the Technische Hochschule in Berlin in 1904 and on to work with Fritz Haber and then rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story before going to the Technische Hochschule in Berlin in 1904 and on to work with Fritz Haber and then with Ernest Rutherford; Szilard had studied at the Technology Institute in Budapest and served in the Army before the post-Armistice turmoil made him ●●

1903 1903: John von Neumann (1903–57) in 1954. Herman Goldstine (1913–2004) circa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John von Neumann (1903–57) in 1954. Herman Goldstine (1913–2004) circa 1944. Prespe ●●

1903 Information history in 1903 rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story would become, nor how long-lived. Henry Adams, who wanted to work some version of entropy into his theory of history, wrote to his brother Brooks in 1903, “Clerk Maxwell’s demon who runs the second la ●●

1903 of the General Education Board.”9 The Rockefeller Foundation rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Abraham Flexner, of the General Education Board.”9 The Rockefeller Foundation’s General Education Board, chartered by Congress in 1903 for “the promot ●●

1903 1903 - Honduras - March rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 1903 - Honduras - March 23 to 30 or 31: To protect the American consulate and the steamship wharf at Puerto Cortez during a period of revolutionary activity ●●

1903 (It was the seventh time rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story (It was the seventh time the United States had invaded Panama since it had kid- napped the province from Colombia in 1903 to build the canal—see Appendix II.) The new Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen ●●

1903 American Breeders Association forms Eugenics Committee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story At the American Breeders Association's first annual meeting in St. Louis in December 1903, Charles Davenport succeeded in establishing a formal Eugenics Committee. The ABA voting 499-5, supported expanding eugenics work into legislation and public policy. ●●

1903 Distillers-Securities Corporation formed by consolidation ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These wholesalers and the manufacturing enterprise were consolidated in 1903 into the Distillers-Securities Corporation ●●

1903 ) The mergers formed after 1903 (including International Agricultural Chemical, rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ) The mergers formed after 1903 (including International Agricultural Chemical, National Aniline, and United States Industrial Alcohol) centralized pr ●●

1903 Du Pont cousins consolidate family firms ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In 1903 three du Pont cousins consolidated their small enterprise with many other small, single-unit family firms ●●

1903 Corn Products Company formed by merger ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Corn Products Company, formed in 1903, was a merger of two unsuccessful combinations and three independent companies ●●

1903 To obtain an accurate picture of capital invested, Pierre carefully reviewed the... rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To obtain an accurate picture of capital invested, Pierre carefully reviewed the valuation made of all properties coming into the merger in 1903 ●●

c. 1903 Berlin's Kriminalpolizei begins systematic fingerprint use 0 cit. German police departments began adopting fingerprint classification systems for criminal identification, following methods pioneered by Francis Galton and Edward Henry in Britain and India during the 1890s. Fingerprinting gradually replaced the earlier Bertillon system of anthropometric measurement as the standard method of identifying repeat offenders across European and American police forces. The shift marked one of the first major applications of forensic science to routine policing. technology ●

c. 1903 First Rhodes Scholars arrive at Oxford 0 cit. The first cohort of Rhodes Scholars, drawn from Britain's colonies, the United States, and Germany, began their studies at Oxford. The program was designed to bring together future leaders from across the English-speaking world and Germany under a shared educational and cultural formation. It quickly became a marker of an internationally minded governing elite. culture / politics ●●

c. 1903 German Rhodes Scholarships begin 0 cit. In line with Rhodes's will, scholarships for German students to study at Oxford began, with Kaiser Wilhelm II personally taking an interest in nominating candidates. Rhodes had included Germany explicitly, believing closer ties between the British and German elites would help preserve peace between the two powers. The arrangement made the scholarship scheme an early instrument of great-power diplomacy as much as empire-building. diplomacy ●●

c. October 1903 Bondelswarts Nama uprising 0 cit. The Bondelswarts Nama rise against German rule in the south of the colony, protesting land seizures, taxation, and mistreatment. German forces suppress the revolt, but the unrest signals the grievances that will soon erupt into the larger Herero uprising and, later, a wider Nama rebellion. war ●

21 January 1903 Militia Act of 1903 creates the National Guard 0 cit. Congress passed the Militia Act of 1903, known as the Dick Act after its sponsor Senator Charles Dick, replacing the outdated 1792 militia laws. It formally organized the state militias as the National Guard, required them to follow Regular Army organization and standards, and provided federal funding, arms, and training in exchange. The law set the legal foundation for the modern National Guard and its federal-state relationship. politics / war ●●●

c. 1903 Lodges follow the railway into East Africa 0 cit. As Britain built the Uganda Railway and settled East Africa, Masonic lodges were established in Mombasa and the new town of Nairobi. They drew colonial administrators, settlers, railway engineers, and merchants, including many from British India. The lodge arrived as part of the machinery of settlement and administration. economy / politics / society ●

20 May 1903 The British Parliament condemns the Free State 0 cit. The House of Commons passed a resolution calling on the powers that had recognized the Congo Free State to ensure its people were governed humanely. The debate, driven by figures such as Herbert Samuel, put diplomatic pressure on Leopold and led directly to Casement's investigation. It marked the point where a national legislature formally challenged Leopold's rule. diplomacy / politics ●●

1903 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a proven forgery debunked 0 cit. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, first printed in Russia in 1903, pretend to be the minutes of a secret Jewish plan to control the world's finance and governments. They are a fabrication, plagiarized from an earlier French satire that had nothing to do with Jews, and were exposed as a forgery by The Times of London in 1921. The whole idea of a Jewish plot to run world finance rests on this fake document and must be rejected outright as antisemitic invention. politics / society ●●●

April 1903 The Kishinev pogrom shocks the world 0 cit. Over Easter of 1903 a mob in Kishinev killed about forty-nine Jews, wounded hundreds, and wrecked homes and shops, spurred on by an antisemitic local press. News of the massacre spread worldwide and drew wide condemnation. The poet Hayim Nahman Bialik's response, In the City of Slaughter, stirred many young Jews toward self-defense and emigration. culture / politics / society ●●

1903 Milton Hershey builds a company town in Pennsylvania 0 cit. Chocolate maker Milton Hershey built the town of Hershey around his factory, providing housing, schools, transport, and parks for his workers. It was a more benevolent version of the company town, but the company still shaped daily life and local services. Such towns show private firms taking on the roles usually held by municipalities. economy / society ●

1903 Lord Delamere and the Pioneer Settlers 6 cit. Hugh Cholmondeley, the third Baron Delamere, took up a huge lease near Njoro in 1903 and poured his fortune into experiments with sheep, cattle, and wheat until he made settler farming work. He became the leader and spokesman of a small aristocratic settler class that pictured the highlands as a white man's country. Delamere set the tone of settler politics, demanding cheap African labour, low taxes, and a permanent racial hold on the land. economy / politics ●●●

c. 1903 The Alienation of the Kikuyu Highlands 5 cit. The fertile, well-watered highlands the Kikuyu farmed were among the first lands taken for white settlement, declared Crown land on the fiction that they were empty or ownerless. Much of the frontier had in fact been thinned by the famine and smallpox of the 1890s, and settlers moved onto ground its owners expected to return to. The Kikuyu system of family land held under a founder, the githaka, gave people a strong sense of ownership that the seizures directly violated, feeding a land grievance that lasted for decades. economy / politics ●●●

c. 1903 Most labourers return to India while thousands stay 0 cit. Of the roughly 32,000 indentured workers, about 2,500 died on the project and some 6,700 chose to remain in East Africa when their contracts ended, while most returned home. Artisans and craftsmen known as fundis, along with clerks and small traders, followed the line inland. This settled core became the root of the Indian community in Kenya. economy / society ●●●

28 June 1903 Malcolm Nurse is born in Trinidad 0 cit. The man later known as George Padmore is born Malcolm Ivan Meredith Nurse in Arouca, near Port of Spain. His father was a schoolteacher, and he grew up in a colonial society whose racial order shaped his politics. He took the name George Padmore in the late 1920s as he moved into radical work in the United States. politics / society ●●

1903 Guantanamo Bay is held against Cuba's objection 0 cit. A 1903 lease signed under US military occupation gives Washington control of Guantanamo Bay for a naval station. After the 1959 revolution Cuba rejects the arrangement and refuses to cash the annual rent checks, but the United States keeps the base. It is the oldest overseas US base and the clearest case of one held over the host country's protest. diplomacy / war ●●

1903 Institution of the Tour de France ai_extracted 1 cit. Hobsbawm treats the rise of mass spectator sport as part of the social invention of tradition around 1900. On the continent cycling was the leading mass sport, marked by new velodromes in big cities and the founding of the Tour de France in 1903. ●

c. 1903 African levies do much of the conquest 0 cit. British columns were small, so conquest ran on African manpower. Maasai levies, Mbeere fighters, Ndia Kikuyu, and King's African Rifles askari, many of them Sudanese and Swahili, provided the numbers and were paid largely in captured cattle. The empire set neighbour against neighbour and let the losers fund the winners' loyalty. society / war ●●

1903 Tea starts as a settler highland experiment 5 cit. White settlers introduced tea seedlings at Limuru in 1903. Commercial cultivation began in the 1920s and remained a settler preserve until Africans were allowed into smallholder tea in the 1950s. Tea is a clean example of how climate, altitude and exclusion turned the highlands into an export machine. economy / politics ●●●●

8 February 1904 to 5 September 1905 Russo-Japanese War wikidata 0 cit. conflict between the Russian and Japanese empires from 1904 to 1905 ●●●●

8 April 1904 Entente Cordiale 0 cit. Agreements settling colonial disputes between Britain and France, notably trading British primacy in Egypt for French primacy in Morocco, with secret articles on Morocco's future. It began the alignment that became the Triple Entente. diplomacy / politics ●●●

21 May 1904 Founding of FIFA 0 cit. no story Seven European football associations found the Fédération Internationale de Football Association in Paris to govern international football. It went on to create the World Cup in 1930. culture / diplomacy / society ●●●

January 1904 to 1908 Herero and Nama Wars 0 cit. no story Germany crushes Herero and Nama uprisings and drives survivors into the desert and concentration camps. The campaign is widely regarded as the twentieth century's first genocide. war ●●●

17 October 1904 Founding of Bank of America 0 cit. Amadeo Giannini opens the Bank of Italy in San Francisco to serve immigrants and working people the big banks ignored. Renamed Bank of America in 1930, it pioneers branch banking and becomes one of the largest banks in the world. economy / society ●●●●

c. 1904 Aleister Crowley and Thelema 0 cit. The occultist Aleister Crowley, trained in Golden Dawn Qabalah, built it into his own system of magic and the philosophy of Thelema. His writings carried Hermetic Qabalah to a wide twentieth-century audience. culture / religion ●●●

6 December 1904 The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine 0 cit. President Theodore Roosevelt claimed a right for the United States to intervene in the affairs of Latin American states. The corollary justified repeated military actions in the region. politics / war ●●

1904 to 1914 The Second Aliyah 0 cit. A second wave of Jewish immigration, largely from the Russian Empire, arrived between 1904 and 1914. Its labor-oriented pioneers founded institutions that shaped later Israeli society. politics / society ●●●

1904 Ida Tarbell publishes The History of the Standard Oil Company 0 cit. Journalist Ida Tarbell serialised her investigation of Standard Oil in McClure's Magazine from 1902 and published it as a book in 1904. Her detailed reporting shaped public opinion against the company's methods. economy / society ●●●●

1904 Northern Securities antitrust case 0 cit. The Supreme Court in 1904 ordered the breakup of Northern Securities, a railroad holding company Morgan had helped form. The case was an early victory for federal trust-busting under President Theodore Roosevelt. economy / politics ●●●

12 January 1904 to 1908 Herero and Nama genocide 1 cit. After the Herero and Nama rose against German colonists, German forces drove survivors into the desert and confined others in death camps. Tens of thousands died in what is widely regarded as the first genocide of the twentieth century. society / war ●●●●

1904 Entente Cordiale between France and Britain (1904) ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904 France and Britain settled their colonial disputes together, France recognizing British Egypt in return for support in Morocco, forming the Entente Cordiale in the face of German power. ●●

1904 Formation of I. G. Farbenindustrie ai_extracted 1 cit. no story I. G. Farben, the German chemical combine, was formed in 1904 from three firms. Quigley says that after its 1926 reorganization it controlled about two-thirds of Germany's chemical output. ●●

1904 Charles Hardinge shapes the Entente Cordiale ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Quigley calls Charles Hardinge one of the most significant figures in British foreign policy. He credits him as the most important single person in forming the 1904 Entente Cordiale. ●●

1904 Milner calls for a 'powerful body of men' outside party politics ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Refusing the presidency of an imperial federalist body, Milner wrote to its secretary Congdon about his distaste for party politics. He called for a powerful body of men devoted at all times to national unity. ●●

1904 First racial science laboratory opens at Cold Spring Harbor, 1904 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto states that in 1904, funded partly by Carnegie and Harriman money, the world's first racial science laboratory opened at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island. ●●

1904 Frances Kellor publishes Out of Work, 1904 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto describes Americanization organizer Frances Kellor, whose first muckraking book Out of Work was published in 1904. ●●

1904 Ivan Pavlov wins the Nobel Prize, 1904 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that Ivan Pavlov won the Nobel in 1904 for discovering the conditioned reflex, work that spread behavioral psychology into government and corporate use. ●●

1904 G. Stanley Hall coins 'adolescence,' 1904 ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Gatto notes that in 1904 G. Stanley Hall inserted the word 'adolescence' into the American vocabulary, helping launch the science of child development. ●●

1904 Roosevelt wins the 1904 election ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the process, Roosevelt gained enough popular support to win the election of 1904 with 70 percent of the electoral vote. But by 1907, either because he believed he needed... ●●

1904 In 1904, Edward Grenfell was elevated to partner; he became rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904, Edward Grenfell was elevated to partner; he became a Bank of England director a year later. A cool, dapper young bachelor who wore smart clothes and had a sharp tongue, Grenfell was snobbish ... ●●

1904 Morgan bank funds Roosevelt's 1904 reelection ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the 1904 campaign, the Morgan bank gave $ 150,000 toward Roosevelt’s reelection. In return, Pierpont was sternly lectured by TR at a 1907 dinner of the Gridiron Club, the president wagging his fing... ●●

1904 In 1904, he went to Japan to report on the Russo-Japanese Wa rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904, he went to Japan to report on the Russo-Japanese War for Reuters and the Associated Press. A friend in those years described him as “tall, slim, with reddish-brown hair, of unusual frankness ... ●●

1904 Rogers did not terminate his meetings with Tarbell rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rogers did not terminate his meetings with Tarbell until February 1904, when she published a shocking account of railway agents spying on Standard Oil competitors—a practice that Rogers had strenuously denied. ●●

1904 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. ●●

1904 Then a breakthrough occurred in January 1904, when rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then a breakthrough occurred in January 1904, when Siddall learned that the Tarbell series had won two unexpected admirers: Frank’s daughter and son-in-law, Helen and Walter Bowler. Using Mr. Bowler as a go-between, Frank stipulated his conditions for a tête-à-tête with Tarbell: “I want no member of my family to know of this interview. ●●

1904 By late 1904, gripped by migraine headaches and rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By late 1904, gripped by migraine headaches and insomnia, he wavered on the edge of a breakdown. Under doctor’s orders, he, Abby, and their baby daughter Babs sailed to Cannes in December 1904 for what would extend into a yearlong absence from 26 Broadway. ●●

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 Crowley receives the Book of the Law and founds Thelema 1 cit. In Cairo, Aleister Crowley claims a spirit dictated to him the Book of the Law, founding the religion of Thelema with its creed 'Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law'. It became the fountainhead of much of modern Western occultism. culture / religion ●●●●

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 Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine ai_extracted 1 cit. In what he called a “Corollary” to the Monroe Doctrine, he proclaimed on December 6, 1904, a general right of intervention by “some civilized nation” ●●

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. ●●