Word: flagler
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...York, Clarence H. Mackay and Harry Harkness Flagler...
...YORK SYMPHONY ? Harry Harkness Flagler, sole guarantor last ten years of $100,000 annual deficit. He wiped out the $250,000 deficit the year the New York Symphony Orchestra went abroad...
From Manhattan comes Harry Harkness Flagler, backer of the New York Symphony Orchestra (Mr. Mackay is of the New York Philharmonic) ; from Los Angeles, W. A. Clark, Jr.; from Minneapolis, Elbert L. Carpenter; from Chicago, Charles H. Hamill; from Detroit, William H. Murphy; from Cincinnati, Mrs. Charles P. Taft; from Cleveland, Mrs. John L. Severance; from Rochester, home of the youngest of all big orchestras, George Eastman; from Philadelphia, Alexander van Rensselaer, acting for Edward W. Bok; from Boston, Judge Frederick P. Cabot, the successor of Major Lee Higginson. With them will come 13 business managers...
...Standard Oil monopoly, for practical monopoly it still is, was the foundation of a refinery in Cleveland by an Englishman named Samuel Andrews in 1862. John D. Rockefeller invested $4,000 in the venture. In 1867 the concern was organized under the name of Rockefeller, Andrews and Flagler. In 1870 it was incorporated as the Standard Oil Com-pany of Ohio, with a capitalization of $1,000,000. The parties interested were John D. Rockefeller, Henry M. Flagler, Samuel Andrews, Steven V. Harkness and William Rockefeller...