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: From: "Storm" stonesnorm@gis.net : Date: Sat Jul 12, 2003 1:17 am
: Subject: ______ is the most dangerous person on the planet!
: How about the Rockefellers? =======================================
John D. Rockefeller (1839-1937), industrialist and philanthropist
Copyright 1997 State Historical Society of Wisconsin
http://us.history.wisc.edu/hist102/lectures/lecture05.html
Standard Oil of New Jersey
In 1879, John D. Rockefeller and a handful of associates founded Standard Oil of New Jersey, the prototypical example of corporate consolidation and efficiency. Rockefeller was so successful that at his death, his personal fortune was estimated at $815,647,796.89, not to mention the $40 million in profits that the Standard Oil trust averaged every year. However, his methods of persuading small companies to join his trust were often less admirable than we might expect of an American folk hero. Although Rockefeller often gained control by purchasing smaller companies in public, he also seized power privately or through proxy to hide the fact that his behemoth trust would soon destroy the smaller company. Moreover, if buying stock proved too arduous, Rockefeller sometimes hired armed Pinkerton Agents to "persuade" his competition to relinquish control. The Pinkerton Agents were famed for their club-wielding ability, and many a small business owner became familiar with the wrong end of those clubs.
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And that was a relatively polite profile!
For more detailed accounts of this man's exploits [and apparently continued by his children ...]
Strategies of John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company 1863-1911
by Francois Micheloud ...one of the best references on Rocky!
http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/SO/rock.htm
"Yet despite such economic resources, Rockefeller had become an object of hatred and derision in America; he could not bury his wife of more than half a century for fear that the body might be desecrated or that he might be subpoenaed at the funeral by any of a dozen governmental bodies investigating his activities."
"In 1915 public passions were further aroused against Rockefeller by widely circulated reports of massacres of women and children at the Colorado Fuel and Iron company which his family controlled. In such an atmosphere wealth was of little use in quieting public opinion. Effective power, Rockefeller learned, depended on control of not merely pipelines, refineries, railways and banks, but also of the leaders and conduits of public opinion. And just as the old Rockefeller was able to organise industries systematically for great profit, his heirs learned to organise just as efficiently the perceptions and passions that constitute that vague realm known as 'public opinion'."
"A dedicated Baptist, he founded the University of Chicago on the condition that it be "aggressively Christian" with no "infidel teachers".
"Rockefeller, who had wanted to live until 100, died in his sleep from sclerotic myocarditis at the age of 97 at The Casements, his Winter home, in Florida. None of his immediate family was with him at the end."
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